The Port Forwarding DHCP, and Services screen, depending on your needs you may work here a bit.
Starting on the left you have DHCP Address Reservations. Hostname is the host name of the device you are going to set as static. IP address is the address assigned by the DHCP server, and the MAC address is that of the device being served. The Do Not Propagate box is to keep the device info from being propagated out on the mesh, in this case the Grandstream is not being propagated.
DEL is Delete the information for that device.
To the right you have Advertised Services, this is where the URL’s for your devices and services are published on the mesh. Name must match the hostname of the device to be published, link must be checked to link the hostname to the URL. You will setup the URL the way you want it to appear on the mesh status screen. The URL is followed by the port type, most are http or port 80.
Below left is Current DHCP Leases this is where the DHCP leases show up. The [ADD] button is used to add leases to the DHCP Address Reservations.
The sections on Tags for Advanced DHCP Options, Advanced DHCP Options and Port Forwarding, are quite extensive, I will not go into them here but you can continue to read about them at:
https://docs.arednmesh.org/en/latest/arednGettingStarted/advanced_config.html
The next page is the Tunnel server page. Here you can set up links with your node serving as a tunnel server. In this case the device is no longer doing this function as it has been passed off to the mesh tunnel server, but here is the page view:
You have the client ID which must be exactly as setup on the client side. The password for the client connection, and the IP address which will be assigned for this tunnel. The password will be copied and sent to the client side. At the bottom is a section for setting up wireguard tunnels which are faster and more efficient.
The next screen will be the client screen:
Here we see some old setups that are no longer in use, but they have not been deleted. Notice the checked one has a small blue cloud with an upward pointing arrow, this indicates that tunnel is active. Indeed the device is connected to the mesh tunnel server.
In a separate section we will review the OK Mesh tunnel server and supernode server screens so you will be familiar with them.
In the next part we will look at the two administration pages and how they are used.
Chuck, KP4DJT
