FreedomLab
The FreedomLab is the Free Network Foundation's development and test lab; it has a collection of networking equipment available for inter-op testing etc.
Status
June 2012: hardware is collected but not configured for easy remote access and has not yet been put to use
Location, Facilities, Access
Everything is at a residential location in Austin, TX. Remote access will be made available on request.
Services
- Continuous integration testing
- Firmware development and tuning
- Shell access to fancy equipment for experimentation?
Software
- Horst (as a spectrum analyzer capable of understanding OLSR mesh networks)
- Wireshark
- Scapy
- Netdude
- gpsd
- nmap
- Twinkle SIP client
- Wavemon
Hardware Available
Routers:
- Cisco 6509
- Cisco 1841
- Cisco 3540
Switches:
- Cisco 2950
- Cisco 2924
Access Points:
- Ubiquity NS2
- Mesh potato
- Linksys repeater
- Orinoco 802.11b
- AirLink
Computers:
- Optiplex 745 VM server (lxc/virtualbox)
- VirtualBox host to run PfSense virtual machines so we can test out configurations, test compatibility with Cisco gear (OSPF/BGP)
- VirtualBox host to run FreedomNode virtual machines (with a genode base, and Debian guests)
- LXC host to run GIS and other computationally intensive work loads in support of FNF network operations
- LXC host to run various software packages / experiments (very early stage FNF software application research projects)
- The system has a USB bluetooth adapter. It also has multiple 802.11b/g USB wifi adapters.
- ASUS EEEPC
- running Lubuntu to perform coverage and performance testing as well as network diagnostics)
Accessories:
- Serial to USB converter (for use with serial consoles on switches, soekris rigs, access points etc)
- External (USB) wireless card capable of monitor mode, packet injection etc
- GPS Receiver
More Resources
- Blog post about FreedomLab (December 2011)
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