COOVA + Openwrt + Metarouter

RouterOS Virtualization
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We are trying to install CoovaChilli in a Rb433.

In order to do that, we installed Metarouter and its version of Openwrt.

We used RouterOS 3.25 and the image and patch that we download from:
‘http://www.mikrotik.com/download/openwrt-metarouter-rootfs-1.1.tgz’
‘http://www.mikrotik.com/download/openwrt-metarouter-1.1.patch’

Then we installed the Coova.

Evrething worked fine till we reboot the mikrotik. When we reboot it, the files that are in /etc/Chilli and the /etc/init.d/chilli are cut. The last lines of the files are erased!

We made a “workaround” puting a link (ln) to backup files in the reboot, but we would like to know why this is happening and if there is a way to solve this bug.

May be we need to use some other versions…

Thanks!!

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Try latest one :wink:

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Any newer version than 3.25 should fix the problem.

4

Hi all,

I have a few rb133 routerboards and would prefer to run coovachilli or chillispot on. Anyone know if this is doable? Metarouter is the only option I have seen but it looks to not be supported in RB133.

Any other ideas would be helpful thnaks!

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mipsle does noes not support metarouter feature, you need mipsbe board or select ppc (powerpc) board.

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Ok thanks for your help, I shall investigate another option, perhaps OpenWrt will work, cheers.

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that might be the answer

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Hello.
I see that this post is a bit old but I would like to know if someone can help me and give me a clue to how to setup this configuration.

I already instaled the OpenWRT virtual machine using the metarouter and setup the coova chili. I’m using the RB 951Ui 2HnD with 4 ethernet ports + Wlan.

I receive the internet over the eth1 (its using DHCP client) and my clients should connect over the WLAN (they receive ip over DHCP provided by openWRT), when I connect a client he gets the right ipaddress 192.168.120.x and the captive comes up but it doesn’t connect to the internet. If I’m connected over ssh to the openwrt I can get internet.

I think the problem is not the iptables over the openwrt because I use the same configuration in a router that runs physicaly the openWRT

I think the problem might be in the firewall rules and routes, in the mikrotik, between the virtual machine and the physical infrastructure but I can not find out whats wrong. Did someone here get this to work? May you give me some tips?
Thank’s a lot.