[LEDE-DEV] Test farm for routers / tetaneutral.net

[Eric Schultz]

Laurent,

As Dirk mentioned, Qualcomm Atheros did create BoardFarm which is
actively being developed. At prpl, I'm also developing a BoardFarm based
test farm of devices from prpl members to test daily builds of OpenWrt
and allow community members to have SSH access to for debugging why a
build or test may have failed. One of my tasks for my time working on
BoardFarm the next few weeks is creating a tutorial on how prpl we set
up BoardFarm for our devices.

We'd love to have Tetaneutral involved in developing BoardFarm and
making sure it meets everyone's needs. I'd be happy to answer any
questions you have about it either here or one-on-one. We also have a
new mailing list (BoardFarm at lists.prplfoundation.org) and IRC channel
(#boardfarm on Freenode). Please do get in touch!

Eric

On 5/24/2016 3:43 PM, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The not-for-profit ISP tetaneutral.net would like to provide
> a hardware test farm for small routers in addition to the LEDE mirror
> (and GCC Compile Farm machines hosting, RIPE probe, NLNOG ring VM),
> as we use OpenWRT/LEDE for all of our member "internet box" (1)
> 
> Has anyone made and documented such a setup?
> 
> I can think of:
> - ssh access to the gateway with LAN services (DHCP/RA/VLAN trunk)
> - switch with per port configurable VLAN (doc for what is plugged where)
> - client/server machines to generate LAN/WAN traffic
> - remote power control
> - remote push button control
> - webcam view (for LEDs)
> - remote serial (soldering needed)
> - local build servers
> 
> Other things? 
> 
> We can start small with TP-Link TL-WR841N v11.1 which works well with
> LEDE snapshort (wifi+LAN+WAN v4/v6) but has (cosmetics) LEDs not
> working :).
> 
> We have pile of hardware for our needs (TP-Link, Ubiquity, Mikrotik,
> Netonix, ...) and have budget of around 1500 EUR per month
> free to invest on what we want (1).
> 
> Sincerely
> 
> Laurent
> AS197422 http://tetaneutral.net
> 
> (1) Our imagebuilder based scripts
> https://chiliproject.tetaneutral.net/projects/git-tetaneutral-net/repository/openwrt-tools
> https://chiliproject.tetaneutral.net/projects/git-tetaneutral-net/repository/openwrt-tools/revisions/master/entry/quick_841n_ttn_lede.sh
> 
> (2) We're transparent about it:
> https://chiliproject.tetaneutral.net/projects/tetaneutral/wiki/Inventaire
> https://tetaneutral.net/#Transparence
> http://pad.tetaneutral.net/p/budget2016
> http://pad.tetaneutral.net/p/stock
> 
> 
> 
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