My plan was to collect data about the usage of the Red Hook mesh network, but I failed to collect the proper data!
There is a unix utility called collectd
which looks to be a great system operator tool for collecting and storing data over time. collectd
is installed on all the routers in the mesh network, however I was never able to get the iptables plugin to report bandwidth used for any collectd
instance. Sigh. I even asked people to help and tried a hack to get something, but nothing worked.
When the time came to perform some data analysis, I knew that although I didn't have quite the right data, I was still collecting data, so I started looking into that. A plugin that reported data on the mesh routing algorithm was installed, but when I investigated the data it turned out I had only two whole hours of said data. It looked like some of th