Today I spent quite some time working out a generic install procedure for the Rapid Deploy stuff, plus made a few little changes to DHCP server management to make things a bit nicer. I’ve documented the setup procedure at www.crc.net.nz/wiki/RapidDeploySetup
There’s lots of little tricky hacks that go on to make it work, like making resolv.conf resident on /var, and setting up proxy dns stuff during boot time (copying default files to /var, etc) which aren’t very nice. Also need to change the C_PATH variable in /etc/init.d/quagga to point to /var/quagga instead of /etc/quagga, but I guess all those things come with wanting to run on a read-only root filesystem. Doesn’t really make it portable (nicely).
Bleh.. could make a script to do the whole install, but I don’t think I’ll bother for now, it’s probably going to change a lot in the future anyway.
ProxyDNS is not-quite working yet, although at least it’s starting up properly now.. need to talk to Blake about that one. Quagga is doing it’s usual trick of not updating default gateways when links change.. need to know how to force a gateway calculation.. will talk to Matt about that tomorrow hopefully.
Next is somehow getting Rapid Deploy to run on Murray’s box he’s got in South Africa so he can demo it to some guys when he goes to England in the next couple of weeks.. Need to also integrate the signal monitor stuff with the rapid deploy stuff for him, although rapid deploy can do the AP stuff, so it shouldn’t be too hard.
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