Personal Telco University

Schedule

Location: Portland State University, Portland Oregon http://www.pdx.edu

Building: Smith Center Student Union [http://www.pdx.edu/map.html PSU campus map]

Dates/Room:

Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Enrollment is limited - Please notify DarrinEden if you plan on attending.

Homework

• Assignment 1: Create a WikiWord on this MoinMoin WikiWiki for your name (example: DarrinEden).

• Assignment 2: Create an entry in NodeDb for your prospective final project node.

• Assignment 3: Install SubVersion and [http://svn.personaltelco.net/svn/ptp/ check out].

Courses

• == Class One ==

• PersonalTelco Model, Operation and Organization

  • Mission
    • "We are here to promote and build public wireless networks through community support and education."
      • Promote

        • [http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/PressCoverage Press]

        • Outreach
      • Build
        • Nodes/Hotspots
        • PTPnet
      • Community Support
        • Volunteers
          • Inspire, Educate, Put To Work

        • SellingFree

          • Local Buisness Owners
          • Creating and maintaining business relationships
        • Donations
          • Money
            • Paypal

            • FundRaising

            • Grants
          • Gear
            • Grants
            • Contributions
            • Gimmes
        • Like Minded Groups

          • [http://www.freenetworks.org Freenetworks]

          • [http://www.freegeek.org/ Free Geek]

      • Education
  • History
    • Beginings

      • [http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MeetingFebruary2001 February 2001 Gathering]

    • Growth
    • Changes

      • [http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/PartingSpeech AdamShands Farewell Address]

    • The PTPnet
    • Capos and Directors
    • The Now
  • Core Values

    • [http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf What is Free Culture]

    • [http://www.personaltelco.net/static/publications/manifesto-trifold.sxw Wireless Commons Manifesto]

    • [http://www.freenetworks.org/peering.html Freenetworks Peering Agreement]

    • The Benefits of Giving It Away
    • Viral Propagation
  • Organization
    • Legal Framework

      • [http://www.personaltelco.net/download/nonprofit/PTP_Articles.doc Articles of Incorporation]

      • [http://www.personaltelco.net/download/nonprofit/PTP_bylaws.doc Bylaws]

      • [http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MembershipAgreement Membership Agreement]

      • NonProfit

        • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501c3 What is a 501c3]

    • Members
      • Voting Membership

        • [http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MembershipAgreement Eligibility]

      • NonVoting Membership

    • The Board
      • President
      • Treasurer
      • Secretary

    • [http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/RegionCaptain The Region Captians]

      • SouthEast

      • NorthEast

      • SouthWest

      • NorthWest

      • NorthAndBeyond

    • The Directors
      • Press
      • Technology
      • Community
      • Education
    • The Advisors
  • Communication Tools
    • Wiki

      • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Overview]

      • PTP Specifics
    • Email

      • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email Overview]

      • PTP Specifics

        • If you need help, or have a general question, please send an email to info@personaltelco.net, and someone will get back to you as soon as possible.

        • [http://www.personaltelco.net/static/publications/leadership-contactsheet.pdf PTP Contact List] shows the individuals who are in charge of specific parts of running the PTP

        • [http://lists.personaltelco.net/mailman/listinfo/general The General MailingList] is set up to ask questions, put forth ideas and get to know the other memebers of the PTP.

    • IRC

      • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irc Overview]

      • [http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/IrcChannel PTP Specifics]

    • Request Tracker

      • [http://bestpractical.com/rt/features.html Overview]

      • PTP Specifics
    • Face to face
      • Meetings
        • Monthly
          • Every month we try and get together for some face time at our monthly meeting. They are informal events; anyone interested in learning more or helping out is welcome to come and ask (or answer) questions. We try to keep the meeting agenda page up to date so people can come informed with some idea of what to expect. Monthly meetings are normally held on the last Wednesday of each month, but occasionally vary due to space availability. Times are announced on the general and announce mailing lists, on the news page, and on the monthly meeting page.
        • Weekly
          • A small group of core members gather almost every week at our weekly meetings. We get together to work on problems that need to be solved. If you are just looking for help getting started your best bet is the mailing lists, but if you're looking to get seriously involved, this is the best way to meet the team. Weekly meetings are normally held every Tuesday, except the last week of each month, in which case the monthly meeting takes precedence. Times are normally announced on the general list a couple of days before they happen.
        • Playdays
          • Playdays are a time and place for all interested people to gather, listen to some presenters, exchange ideas, break up into focused groups and work at building up each others' knowledge. Often the Playdays have a focus of one particular topic.
        • Workshops
          • Workshops are set up to work on particular projects. They tend to be very hands-on and often produce items of use by the participants or the PTP in general.

        • AdHoc

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• == Class Two ==
• Using PTP Nodes
  • How to find a node

    • [http://www.personaltelco.net/static/node/index.html The PTP Node Map Page]

    • Handouts at the Nodes

    • [http://maps.personaltelco.net/ NodeDB]

    • War*ing

      • [http://www.wigle.net/ WarDriving]

      • [http://www.personaltelco.net/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album07 WarStrollering]

      • Tools

        • [http://www.netstumbler.com/ Netstumbler - Windows]

        • [http://www.kismetwireless.net/ Kisemet - Linux]

        • [http://apradar.sourceforge.net/ APRadar - Linux]

        • [http://binaervarianz.de/projekte/programmieren/kismac/ Kismac - Mac]

  • How to connect to a node
    • Common Info
      • Layer 1 Air
      • Layer 2 802.11
        • essid - Exteneded Set Service Identifier
          • www.personaltelco.net
      • Layer 3 TCP/IP
        • DHCP Dynamic Host Control Protcol
    • Windows
      • PreXP
        • Each Manufacturer has thier own drivers and control setups
      • XP
        • Attempts to unify all the setups across manufactures
        • Windows Wireless Zero Config
    • Apple
      • Manufacturers Driver/Apps
    • Linux
      • Manufacturers Driver/Apps
      • Wrappers to use other OSs Driver/Apps
      • Third Party Driver/Apps
    • Other
  • Services Offered
    • Local content
      • Node Owners Info
        • Menus, art display, whats happening
      • Local music, art, etc
      • Localized content
        • Debian Mirror
        • Cached/Mirrored sites
  • Reporting Problems
    • General Mailing List
    • Phone Contact
    • RT
  • Suggestion Changes
    • General Mailing List

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  == Class Three ==

• Installing and Maintaining DebianLinux

  • Definitions and overview
    • Why GNU/Linux
      • Free is Good (free as in speach and free as in beer)
    • Why Debian
      • apt-get does package managment realy well
      • Stable
      • Gnu based philiosophy

  • [http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install Getting and installing Debian GNU/Linux]

  • [http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Software available in the Debian system]

  • [http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html Debian package management system]

  • Keeping your Debian system up-to-date

    • AptGet

  • Debian and the kernel
  • Customizing your installation of Debian GNU/Linux
  • Getting support for Debian GNU/Linux
  • Contributing to the Debian Project
  • Installing Debian for PTP Node Use
    • Use the Stable Debain 3.0 ISO
      • 2.4 kernel
      • Partition the HD has two steps main steps:
        • First use the partition tool to determine hda#, primary/logical, swap/bootable type and size. When these values are completed, use the "write" command to commit changes to the hard drive. This process will drop you back into the main installation menu.
        • Second, select "initiate the hard drive" from the main menu. This allows you to select file system type ext3 and label the partitions.
        • hda1 - primary - swap - 256mb
        • hda2 - bootable - primary - ext3 - 256mb - /
        • hda3 - primary - ext3 - 512mb - /var
        • hda5 - logical - ext3 - 1gb - /home
        • Whatever is left, leave be until after the node is finsihed and tested
      • Install the modules for the 2 NIC cards
        • How to find the NIC card type
  • Turning a Debian Install into a PTP node

    • [http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/NoCatAuth What is Nocat]

    • Routing

    • [http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/UsingBuilderHowTo Builder]

    • NoCatException - allow certina MAC/IPs to bypass NoCat

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• == Class Four ==
• TCP/IP Networking

  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol Overview of TCP/IP]

  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model The Seven Layer World View (OSI) ]

  • MAC Addresses

  • TCP & UDP

  • Network Services / Port Numbers
  • Basic Configuration
  • The Network Interface

    • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_card Overview]

    • Configuring

    • [http://www.telusplanet.net/public/sparkman/netcalc.htm NetworkCalculator]

  • Routing

    • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing Overview]

    • Configuring
  • DNS

    • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS Overview]

    • Configuring
  • Local Network Services
  • Network Security
  • Troubleshooting TCP/IP
  • What is NAT

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• == Class Five ==
• RF and 802.11

  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_propagation Introduction to Radio Propagation]

    • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency#Frequency_of_Waves Frequency]

    • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplitude Amplitude]

    • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_%28waves%29 Phase]

    • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_to_digital_converter A To D Converter]

    • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11 Overview of 802.11]

      • 802.11a/g/cablemodem/etc

        • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFDM OFDM]

        • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QPSK QPSK]

      • 802.11b
        • CCK
      • 802.11y

        • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSSS DSSS]

        • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency-hopping_spread_spectrum FHSS]

        • PCC
    • Antennas

      • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna_%28electronics%29 Overview]

        • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIRP EIRP]

      • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna_%28electronics%29#Practical_antenna_models Types of]

        • Omni
        • Sector/Patch
        • Yagi/Vagi(phased array yagi)
        • Parbole/Dish
        • Helical
        • Phase Array

      • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna_%28electronics%29#Polarization Polarization] Is Important

      • DIY

        • [http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html DIY Cantennas]

      • Commercial

• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLAN Introduction to Wireless Networks]

  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11 Overview of 802.11]

    • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Access_Control MAC Media Access Controller]

      • 802.11 MAC is based on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet 802.3 (Ethernet)]

      • The difference is Collision Avoidence

        • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSMA CSMA]

      • What does it do
        • Beacon
        • Associate
        • Authenticate
• Not Covered In Class
  • Security
  • Management Operations

  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_layer Physical Layer Overview]

  • Using 802.11 on Linux
  • Using 802.11 Access Points
  • 802.11 Network Deployment
  • 802.11 Network Analysis
  • 802.11 Performance Tuning

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• == Class Six ==
• Network Maintenance
  • Nagios

    • [http://www.nagios.org/about.php Overview]

    • PTP Specifics
  • Cacti

    • [http://www.raxnet.net/products/cacti/what_is_cacti.php Overview]

    • PTP Specifics
  • AIDE

    • [http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide/manual.html Overview]

    • PTP Specifics
  • SNMP

    • [http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/snmp.htm Overview]

    • PTP Specifics
  • SVN

    • [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/book.html Overview]

    • PTP Specifics

  • SmokePing

    • [http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/ Overview]

    • PTP Specifics
  • VPN
    • Overview
    • PTP Specifics
  • Scripts
    • Log Rotation
    • Nocat Data Gathering

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• == Class Seven ==

• PortlandOregon TopoGraphy

  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Oregon Portland]: Rivers, Valleys, Hills and Mountains

  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS GPS]

  • [http://www.treesaretheenemy.com Trees Are The Enemy]

  • GIS Tools

    • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS Introduction to GIS]

    • [http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=10&n=5041152.76267904%20&e=525286.394249737&u=7&datum=nad83 Topozone's Portland Maps Online]

    • [http://www.cplus.org/rmw/english1.html Radio Mobile for Windows]

  • GPS+GIS - Placing Node Info On A Map

    • [http://www.kismetwireless.net/ Kismet]

    • [http://www.wigle.net/ Wigle]

  • City of Portland

    • [http://www.portlandmaps.com Portland Maps]

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• == Class Eight ==
• Final Project

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• == Suggested Reading List ==

  • [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wirelesscommnet2 Building Wireless Community Networks, 2nd Edition ]

  • [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/802dot11 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide ]

  • [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tcp3 TCP/IP Network Administration, 3rd Edition ]

  • [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wirelesshks/ Wireless Hacks ]

Faculty

• DarrinEden

• TomHiggins

• KeeganQuinn

• RobertPetersen

• AaronBaer

• ...and special guests

Location

• PersonalTelcoUniversityCampus

Tuition

Nominal

Scholarships

Fifteen scholarships will be awarded to first incoming class. Three selected by each RegionCaptain.

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