µMurmur

µMurmur or uMurmur is a minimalistic Mumble (software) server primarily targeted to run on embedded devices with an open OS like OpenWrt.

Project page for more info and most up-to-date documentation at https://github.com/umurmur/umurmur

So far there are two uMurmur packages available in the repos, one compiled against the PolarSSL library and one against the OpenSSL library. The PolarSSL variant needs less storage and less RAM:

opkg info umurmur-polarssl
opkg info umurmur-openssl

Firewall: The default ports are 64738 tcp and 64738 udp. open them up in /etc/config/firewall.

The following list specifies package versions for latest stable release of OpenWrt. At time of writing Backfire 10.03.1.

Server (OpenWrt)

Name Version Size Description
umurmur-polarssl 0.2.6-1 39696 Minimalistic Mumble server daemon. Uses the PolarSSL library for SSL and crypto.
libpolarssl 0.14.3-1 95679 Embedded SSL (library)
libconfig 1.4.7-1 19143 Libconfig is a simple library for manipulating structured configuration files. This file format is more compact and more readable than XML. And unlike XML, it is type-aware, so it is not necessary to do string parsing in application code. Libconfig is very compact -- just 38K for the stripped C shared library (less than one-fourth the size of the expat XML parser library) and 66K for the stripped Cshared library. This makes it well-suited for memory-constrained systems like handheld devices. shared library. This makes it well-suited for memory-constrained systems like handheld devices.

Client (your PC)

On Linux you need to install the mumble package, like this one. On Windows or MacOSX you have to download it: http://mumble.sourceforge.net/.

Note that uMurmur version 0.2.x is compatible with Mumble version 1.2.x series. Mumble version 1.1.x series is not compatible.

Example using shell access:

opkg install umurmur-polarssl
vi /etc/umurmur.conf
/etc/init.d/umurmur enable
/etc/init.d/umurmur start
logread

Check log output that the uMurmurd started up OK.

open port 64738 for TCP and UDP in /etc/config/firewall.

vi /etc/config/firewall
/etc/init.d/firewall reload 

You should now be able to connect via the mumble protocol.

cat /etc/umurmur.conf

max_bandwidth = 48000; welcometext = “Welcome to uMurmur!”; certificate = “/etc/umurmur/cert.crt”; private_key = “/etc/umurmur/key.key”; password = “”; max_users = 10; # Root channel must always be defined first. # If a channel has a parent, the parent must be defined before the child channel(s). channels = ( { name = “Root”; parent = “”; description = “The Root of all channels”; }, { name = “Lobby”; parent = “Root”; description = “Lobby channel”; }, { name = “Red team”; parent = “Lobby”; description = “The Red team channel”; }, { name = “Blue team”; parent = “Lobby”; description = “The Blue team channel”; } ); # Channel links configuration. channel_links = ( { source = “Lobby”; destination = “Red team”; }, { source = “Lobby”; destination = “Blue team”; } ); default_channel = “Lobby”;

To enable/disable start on boot: /etc/init.d/umurmur enable this simply creates a symlink to umurmur in “/etc/rc.d//etc/init.d/umurmur disable this removes the symlink again

There is no privilege system implemented in uMurmur version < 0.2.10 meaning that users cannot be kicked, banned or muted by other users. If you have a need for this kind of functionality the options are:

  • Set a server password
  • Add the IP of misbehaving users to your firewall.

Since uMurmur 0.2.10 there is a password based administration scheme. A package is available in OpenWRT trunk. For this to work you'd need to install the dependencies from trunk as well if you are running Backfire.

The most common error is the firewall. Double check connection problems with

iptables -n -v

and check those counters.

If users cannot connect and you get this error in the log

WARN: SSL handshake failed: -28672

you're probably running Backfire 10.03.1-rc4 with Polarssl 0.14. Upgrade to Backfire 10.03.1-RC5 or later.

  1. Read about certificates in general. Do it! Public key certificate
  2. enlighten your friends, there is no point in security if not all users understand the principle of operation
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  • Last modified: 2020/08/08 10:56
  • by limer