X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/userv-utils/blobdiff_plain/7729298ad653ba4e0b10bacc9f27d210b4eaf4e7..bc79a75c2bd7600387d3cca68b9fb4f073c6b6db:/ipif/INSTALL diff --git a/ipif/INSTALL b/ipif/INSTALL index a07e9df..b18e413 100644 --- a/ipif/INSTALL +++ b/ipif/INSTALL @@ -6,15 +6,16 @@ if you wish. In any case, on each tunnel endpoint system (not the eventual end-system, but the point where the packets are `detunnelled'): -* Install userv, 0.95.0 or later. This should be in Debian. -* Get userv-utils 0.1.9 from the location above, unpack it, cd to the - `ipif' subdirectory, and say `make' then `really make install'. +* Install userv, 1.0.1 or later. This should be in Debian. Get this +* package, userv-utils from the location above, unpack it, cd to the + `ipif' subdirectory, and say `make' then as root `make install'. -The tunnel is always set up by one of its endpoints, using ssh. So -the active endpoint must have ssh installed; the passive endpoint must -have sshd accessible to the active endpoint, and be willing to allow -the active endpoint to run the appropriate command. +The tunnel is always set up by one of its endpoints, using ssh (we +recommend you use OpenSSH). So the active endpoint must have ssh +installed; the passive endpoint must have sshd accessible to the +active endpoint, and be willing to allow the active endpoint to run +the appropriate command. So: create an account for the active endpoint on the passive. You probably want to use RSAAuthentication, so configure the relevant key @@ -186,8 +187,10 @@ Look at the error messages, they will hopefully be informative. If you see a message from `slattach' about being unable to open /dev/2 or some such, then you need to upgrade your `slattach'. In Debian GNU/Linux it's in the `netbase' package, and the fix is in 3.16-3 and -later. The relevant Debian bug reports are #45515 and #45944, and Ian -Jackson can supply the patch to slattach or a working binary. +later; however the bug has regressed, and is known to be in 3.18-4 and +earlier. The relevant Debian bug reports are #45515 (now closed) and +#45944. A patch to correct 3.18-4 is in this directory as +`slattach.diff'. $Id$