Sunday, December 23, 2018

JNOS2 and Ubuntu Virtual Box



I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS in an Oracle Virtualbox with a bridged network adapter on a Windows 10 laptop. I've got my Yaesu FT-857D and Signalink usb connections shared with the VM.  I'm thinking I need to use Direwolf.  However my Kenwood TH-D74a has a built in KISS TNC and was super easy to access in Linux.

To get JNOS2 to work, I thought I'd be able to just follow the instructions listed on the webpages.  Unfortunately this did not work for me.

When I downloaded and extracted the tar file and tried to run the installer, a message saying the file or directory doesn't exist.   This seems to indicate that prerequisite libraries aren't installed.  Eventually I discovered these needed to be installed:

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

I then received messages like in this thread: http://lists.tapr.org/pipermail/nos-bbs_lists.tapr.org/2018-July/005312.html

To resolve this, I downloaded this:

wget https://www.langelaar.net/jnos2/archive/news/tun_sp2l.c
cp tun_sp2l.c   <src directory>/tun.c

Running the make command was finally successful.  The JNOS installer ran successful. 




Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Private Cloud

My next project is building a private cloud to see if I can take my OpenGIS project up a notch or two in order to support field deployable networks.


Existing Hardware:

  • Gigabit Switch
  • Linksys WRT1900AC running OpenWRT
  • Various ODroid C2 and Raspberry PI computers


New Hardware:

Future Hardware (whenever I find more $)
  • 10GB SFP 
  • Fiber 
  • NAS for storage
  • Ram and Storage Upgrades

Software:


With any luck, I'll be able to build out Zones/Containers/Virtual Machines to support not only GIS servers, databases, and web app servers but also some servers to run ham radio apps like PAT and maybe be able to process IoT sensors streams.