Archived X-Bone Release Info - Version 1.4

Release Date: May 2001

Notes:

• This version of X-Bone is no longer supported. Please use the current version instead!
• This page was reformated from the old X-Bone site. Some links & info might be out of date.

From the old site:

X-Bone Release 1.4

X-Bone Download

• For a new FreeBSD installation, download the X-Bone port, and follow these instructions.

 
• For a new Linux installation, download the X-Bone RPM, and follow these instructions.

 
• If you would like to install X-Bone from source (not recommended!), download the sources, and  follow these instructions.

 
• If you are upgrading from an earlier X-Bone release, follow these instructions.

Further Documentation in the source tarball

• README
• INSTALL
• CHANGES
• REQUIREMENTS
• SECURITY
• FILELIST
• FAQ
• COPYRIGHT

FreeBSD Instructions

Supported Releases

Quick Installation For X-Bone With Secure Overlays

1. Update your FreeBSD port collection (instructions from the FreebSD site).

The ports format has changed in October 2000; X-Bone is a new-style port and will not install on old port collections.
 
2. Unpack the downloaded X-Bone port:
% cd /usr/tmp && tar xfz xbone-1.4-port.tar.gz
% cd xbone
3. Install the EITHER the X-Bone resource daemon OR the X-Bone overlay manager, NOT BOTH!
EITHER: Resource daemon:
% make install USA_RESIDENT=[YES|NO] OPTION=RD
OR: Overlay Manager:
% make install USA_RESIDENT=[YES|NO] OPTION=OMGUI
4. You MUST apply a number of bugfixes to your kernel, as well as enable a few kernel options:

 
Bugfixes:
1. This patch fixes a bug where ICMP responses would never be generated in reply to encrypted ICMP requests.

Only required for 3.X FreeBSD releases!
• patch to netinet/ip_icmp.c
2. This patch fixes a bug where IPsec transport mode packets over IPIP tunnels would incorrectly be identified as IPsec tunnel mode packets. Required for all FreeBSD releases.
• patch to netinet6/ipsec.c

 
Kernel Options:

options gif 128

options IPSEC

options IPSEC_ESP

options MAX_GIF_NEST=128

5. Compile and install the new kernel, then reboot before running the X-Bone.

Linux Instructions

Supported Releases

Quick Installation For X-Bone With Secure Overlays

1. Obtain and install these packages (some may already be installed with your RedHat installation). You can find most RPMs of the software X-Bone depends on at Rufus Site except Net::SSLeay and Apache-SSL. Please also see the detailed installation instructions for configuration options of Apache-SSL.

 

Perl	5.00503 or above	http://www.cpan.org
Perl Modules	Net::SSLeay Net::Netmask CGI (*) Mail::Sendmail (*) File::CounterFile (*)	http://www.cpan.org
OpenSSL	0.9.5a or above	http://www.openssl.org
Apache-SSL	apache_1.3.12 + ssl_1.40	http://www.apache-ssl.org
DNS Server	named	http://www.isc.org/products/BIND
iproute2	2.2.4 or above	http://snafu.freedom.org/linux2.2/

(*) For X-Bone web GUI.
 
2. Unpack the X-Bone RPM:
% rpm -iv XBone-1.4-1.i386.rpm
% cd /usr/local/xbone/install
3. Install the EITHER the X-Bone resource daemon OR the X-Bone overlay manager, NOT BOTH!
EITHER: Resource daemon:
% make rpm-rd
OR: Overlay Manager:
1. % make rpm-om SRC=/usr/local/xbone
4. Check that the ipip.o kernel module is present - if not, enable it and recompile your kernel.

Upgrading From An Earlier X-Bone Release

• Back up host certificate files, /etc/Xbone_daemon.conf, and /etc/Xbone_daemon.state.
• Uninstall the older X-Bone release (see the detailed installation instructions)
• Install X-Bone 1.4 as described above.

Notes on Linux RPM

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