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X-Bone 3.2 - April 2005

                                                                                            
Source
FreeBSD Ports
xbone-3.2-port.tar.gz (Updated May 31,2005!)
 
xbone-gui-3.2-port.tar.gz(Updated May 31,2005!)

Linux+Perl 5.8.5
(Fedora Core 3)

NOTE: These (online) copies of the instructions are more recent than the one included in the distribution.

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Installation Instructions

Install from:

  1. FreeBSD Ports
  2. Linux
  3. Source

FreeBSD [port installation]

    1. Check your OS versions, kernel configurations, & apply necessary kernel patches.
    2. Update your FreeBSD port collection.
    3. Uninstall previous versions of X-Bone.
    4. Download and unpack X-Bone port tarball:
      % cd /usr/tmp && tar xvfz xbone-3.2-port.tar.gz
    5. Download and unpack X-Bone GUI port:
      % cd /usr/tmp && tar xvfz xbone-gui-3.2-port.tar.gz
    6. Install X-Bone Node Daemon on multiple hosts:
      %cd /tmp/xbone-3.2-port && make install
    7. Install X-Bone GUI on one host:
      %cd /tmp/xbone-gui-3.2-port && make install
    8. Post install operations at any time:
      1. for X-Bone Node Daemon:
        %xb-node-control
      2. for X-Bone GUI:
        %xb-gui-control

Linux [RPM installation]

    1. Check your OS versions, kernel configurations, & apply necessary kernel patches.
    2. Obtain and install the perl modules
    3. Uninstall previous versions of X-Bone.
    4. Install the X-Bone RPM for Node Daemon on multiple hosts:
      % rpm -i XBone-3.2-1.i386.rpm
    5. Install the X-Bone RPM for GUI on one host:
      % rpm -i XBone-GUI-3.2-1.i386.rpm
    6. Post install operations at any time:
      1. for X-Bone Node Daemon:
        %xb-node-control
      2. for X-Bone GUI:
        %xb-gui-control

Installation from Source

    1. Check your OS versions, kernel configurations, & apply necessary kernel patches.
    2. Download source
    3. Extract the sources
      % tar zxvf XBone-3.2.tar.gz
      % cd XBone-3.2
    4. Install Node Daemon on multiple hosts:
      % make node
    5. Install X-Bone GUI on multiple hosts:
      % make gui
    6. Post install operations at any time:
      1. for X-Bone Node Daemon:
        %xb-node-control
      2. for X-Bone GUI:
        %xb-gui-control

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Starting X-Bone

Preparation

  • Obtain or create your X.509 certificates for all X-Bone nodes (OM and RDs) and users.
  • Copy your host certificate and key files to /usr/local/etc/xbone/cert/.

On GUI host

  1. Install X-Bone specific apache configuration using either the GUI control panel or xb-apache-config
  2. (Re)start Apache-SSL
    % apachectl startssl

On all hosts

  1. Check the X-Bone daemon configure file (xbone.conf)
  2. (Re)Start Node Daemon:
    %xb-node-daemon

On Name server

  1. (Re)Start name server
    %named

 

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Required Software

This is a list of the software required by X-Bone. Each package may have additional software dependencies not shown. Check each individual software for details.

Perl 5.8.0 or above http://www.cpan.org
Perl Modules

Mail::Sendmail
Parse::RecDescent
AppConfig
Graph
IO::Socket::Multicast
IO::Socket::SSL
LWP::Simple
Net::DNS
Net::IP
Net::Netmask
NetAddr::IP
Parallel::ForkManager
XML::LibXML
XML::Simple
INET6
Socket6
Tk
Tk::Getopt
Tk::TableMatrix
Net::SSH::Perl

http://www.cpan.org
OpenSSL 0.9.5a or above [All] http://www.openssl.org
Apache Apache 2.0.52 or above
ModPerl 1.99 or above		 http://www.apache.org
DNS Server named (bind 9.2.3/above) [DNS SERVER] http://www.isc.org/products/BIND
Routing Software [1]

Quagga 0.98.3 or above (formerly called Zebra)

 http://www.quagga.net
nistnet [2] 2.0.12 or above [Linux only] http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/nistnet/

1. Only needed if you want Dynamic Routing support. Please refer to "dynamic-routing" for more details.
2. Only needed if you want QoS support.

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