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1 | INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS for SECNET |
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974d0468 | 3 | USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THIS IS ALPHA TEST SOFTWARE. I DO NOT |
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4 | GUARANTEE THAT THERE WILL BE PROTOCOL COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN DIFFERENT |
5 | VERSIONS. | |
6 | ||
7 | * Preparation | |
8 | ||
9 | ** System software support | |
10 | ||
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11 | Ensure that you have libgmp2-dev and adns installed (and bison and |
12 | flex, and for that matter gcc...). | |
13 | ||
8dea8d37 | 14 | [On BSD install /usr/ports/devel/bison] |
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2fe58dfd | 16 | If you intend to configure secnet to obtain packets from the kernel |
974d0468 | 17 | through userv-ipif, install and configure userv-ipif. It is part of |
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18 | userv-utils, available from ftp.chiark.greenend.org.uk in |
19 | /users/ian/userv | |
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21 | If you intend to configure secnet to obtain packets from the kernel |
22 | using the universal TUN/TAP driver, make sure it's configured in your | |
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23 | kernel (it's under "network device support" in Linux-2.4) and that |
24 | you've created the appropriate device files; see | |
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25 | linux/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt |
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df1b18fc | 27 | If you're using TUN/TAP on a platform other than Linux-2.4, see |
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28 | http://vtun.sourceforge.net/tun/ |
29 | ||
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30 | ** System and network configuration |
31 | ||
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32 | If you intend to start secnet as root, I suggest you create a userid |
33 | for it to run as once it's ready to drop its privileges. Example (on | |
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34 | Debian): |
35 | # adduser --system --no-create-home secnet | |
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37 | If you're using the 'soft routes' feature (for some classes of mobile |
38 | device) you'll have to run as root all the time, to enable secnet to | |
39 | add and remove routes from your kernel's routing table. (This | |
40 | restriction may be relaxed later if someone writes a userv service to | |
41 | modify the routing table.) | |
42 | ||
43 | If you are joining an existing VPN, read that VPN's documentation now. | |
44 | It may supersede the next paragraph. | |
45 | ||
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46 | In most configurations, you will need to allocate two IP addresses for |
47 | use by secnet. One will be for the tunnel interface on your tunnel | |
48 | endpoint machine (i.e. the address you see in 'ifconfig' when you look | |
49 | at the tunnel interface). The other will be for secnet itself. These | |
50 | addresses should probably be allocated from the range used by your | |
51 | internal network: if you do this, you should provide appropriate | |
52 | proxy-ARP on the internal network interface of the machine running | |
53 | secnet (eg. add an entry net/ipv4/conf/eth_whatever/proxy_arp = 1 to | |
54 | /etc/sysctl.conf on Debian systems and run sysctl -p). Alternatively | |
55 | the addresses could be from some other range - this works well if the | |
56 | machine running secnet is the default route out of your network - but | |
57 | this requires more thought. | |
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58 | |
59 | http://www.ucam.org/cam-grin/ may be useful. | |
60 | ||
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61 | * Installation |
62 | ||
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63 | If you installed the Debian package of secnet, skip to "If installing |
64 | for the first time", below, and note that example.conf can be found in | |
65 | /usr/share/doc/secnet/examples. | |
66 | ||
df1b18fc | 67 | To install secnet do |
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68 | |
69 | $ ./configure | |
70 | $ make | |
974d0468 | 71 | # make install |
9d3a4132 | 72 | # mkdir /etc/secnet |
8689b3a9 | 73 | |
558fa3fb | 74 | (Note: you may see the following warning while compiling |
794f2398 | 75 | conffile.tab.c; this is a bug in bison-1.28: |
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76 | /usr/share/bison/bison.simple: In function `yyparse': |
77 | /usr/share/bison/bison.simple:285: warning: `yyval' might be used | |
78 | uninitialized in this function | |
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79 | |
80 | You may if you wish apply the following patch to bison.simple: | |
81 | diff -pu -r1.28.0.1 -r1.28.0.3 | |
82 | --- bison.s1 1999/08/30 19:23:24 1.28.0.1 | |
83 | +++ bison.s1 1999/08/30 21:15:18 1.28.0.3 | |
84 | @@ -523,8 +523,14 @@ yydefault: | |
85 | /* Do a reduction. yyn is the number of a rule to reduce with. */ | |
86 | yyreduce: | |
87 | yylen = yyr2[yyn]; | |
88 | - if (yylen > 0) | |
89 | - yyval = yyvsp[1-yylen]; /* implement default value of the action */ | |
90 | + | |
91 | + /* If yylen is nonzero, implement the default value of the action. | |
92 | + Otherwise, the following line sets yyval to the semantic value of | |
93 | + the lookahead token. This behavior is undocumented and bison | |
94 | + users should not rely upon it. Assigning to yyval | |
95 | + unconditionally makes the parser a bit smaller, and it avoids a | |
96 | + GCC warning that yyval may be used uninitialized. */ | |
97 | + yyval = yyvsp[1-yylen]; | |
98 | ||
99 | #if YYDEBUG != 0 | |
100 | if (yydebug) | |
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101 | ) |
102 | ||
103 | Any other warnings or errors should be reported to | |
104 | steve@greenend.org.uk. | |
105 | ||
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106 | If installing for the first time, do |
107 | ||
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108 | # cp example.conf /etc/secnet/secnet.conf |
109 | # cd /etc/secnet | |
3b83c932 | 110 | # ssh-keygen -f key -t rsa1 -N "" |
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112 | [On BSD use |
113 | $ LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" ./configure | |
114 | $ gmake CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" | |
115 | XXX this should eventually be worked out automatically by 'configure'.] | |
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117 | Generate a site file fragment for your site (see your VPN's |
118 | documentation, or see below), and submit it for inclusion in your | |
119 | VPN's 'sites' file. Download the vpn-sites file to /etc/secnet/sites | |
120 | - MAKE SURE YOU GET AN AUTHENTIC COPY because the sites file contains | |
121 | public keys for all the sites in the VPN. Use the make-secnet-sites | |
122 | program provided with the secnet distribution to convert the | |
123 | distributed sites file into one that can be included in a secnet | |
124 | configuration file: | |
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794f2398 | 126 | # make-secnet-sites /etc/secnet/sites /etc/secnet/sites.conf |
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df1b18fc | 128 | * Configuration |
2fe58dfd | 129 | |
df1b18fc | 130 | Should be reasonably obvious - edit /etc/secnet/secnet.conf as |
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131 | prompted by the comments in example.conf. XXX Fuller documentation of |
132 | the configuration file format should be forthcoming in time. Its | |
133 | syntax is described in the README file at the moment. | |
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134 | |
135 | * Constructing your site file fragment | |
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136 | |
137 | You need the following information: | |
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b2a56f7c | 139 | 1. the name of your VPN. |
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b2a56f7c | 141 | 2. the name of your location(s). |
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143 | 3. a short name for your site, eg. "sinister". This is used to |
144 | identify your site in the vpn-sites file, and should probably be the | |
145 | same as its hostname. | |
146 | ||
147 | 4. the DNS name of the machine that will be the "front-end" for your | |
974d0468 | 148 | secnet installation. This will typically be the name of the gateway |
9d3a4132 | 149 | machine for your network, eg. sinister.dynamic.greenend.org.uk |
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150 | |
151 | secnet does not actually have to run on this machine, as long as the | |
152 | machine can be configured to forward UDP packets to the machine that | |
153 | is running secnet. | |
154 | ||
b2a56f7c | 155 | 5. the port number used to contact secnet at your site. This is the |
2fe58dfd | 156 | port number on the front-end machine, and does not necessarily have to |
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157 | match the port number on the machine running secnet. If you want to |
158 | use a privileged port number we suggest 410. An appropriate | |
ff05a229 | 159 | unprivileged port number is 51396. |
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b2a56f7c | 161 | 6. the list of networks accessible at your site over the VPN. |
2fe58dfd | 162 | |
b2a56f7c | 163 | 7. the public part of the RSA key you generated during installation |
2fe58dfd | 164 | (in /etc/secnet/key.pub if you followed the installation |
974d0468 | 165 | instructions). This file contains three numbers and a comment on one |
b2a56f7c | 166 | line. |
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167 | |
168 | If you are running secnet on a particularly slow machine, you may like | |
169 | to specify a larger value for the key setup retry timeout than the | |
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170 | default, to prevent unnecessary retransmissions of key setup packets. |
171 | See the notes in the example configuration file for more on this. | |
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172 | |
173 | The site file fragment should look something like this: | |
174 | ||
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175 | vpn sgo |
176 | location greenend | |
177 | contact steve@greenend.org.uk | |
178 | site sinister | |
179 | networks 192.168.73.0/24 192.168.1.0/24 172.19.71.0/24 | |
180 | address sinister.dynamic.greenend.org.uk 51396 | |
181 | pubkey 1024 35 142982503......[lots more].....0611 steve@sinister |