Gateway Installation

Information and Instructions

Connectivity

Gateways has two links it has a wired and a wireless link.

Wireless Connection

Wireless connectivity is used to connect the gateway to the ferry when the ferry arrives at the gateway.The IP addresses, essid and channels are hard coded.In case of testing we need to modify these parameters.This is done by the iwconfig utility and is briefly described in the testing and trouble shooting section.

Wired Connection

The wired link is used for sending data which it gets from the ferry to the proxy.The IP address can be behind the net or a public IP. It should have connectivity to internet.

Information asked during Installation

The information which is required by the Gateway is as below

IP Information

We need to provide information for the wired interface.
Example:

Wired IP

IP interface for the wired link : 192.168.2.101

(This IP can be behind the network also and can also be a public IP so accordingly the things need to be set up .)

Net Mask

All this information is available with the network administrator.
Example:
Net Mask : 255.255.255.0

Gateway Address

Example:
Gateway Address : 192.168.2.13

BroadCast Address

This can be obtained from the IP address and the net mask.Where there is zero in the netmask in that position of the IP enter 255. Therefore for this case we have : Example:
Broadcast Add : 192.168.2.255

UNIX Host Name

This is the name of the machine similar to those given previously. Example:
UNIX Host Name : gateway2

Region Name

This is also similar to previous regions as given in earlier installation. Example:
Region Name : reigon2

Organization Name

This is also similar to previous enetries. Example:
Organization Name : uw2

Public Keys for SSH

Since the keys have already been generated and stored in a folder so we give the path of that folder. Example:
Keys are required which are common for all : /tmp/pubkeys

EID of the Proxy

In this we need to put in the EID of the proxy which we noted down earlier. Example:
proxyname.self.uw2.kiosknet.org

Domain Name of the Proxy

This is the domain which we entered during the installation of the Proxy.
Example:
Proxy Domain name : proxydei.in

If every thing goes well then it asks you to continue writing to the HDD. After it finishes then put the HDD into Soekris Box and then boot and test.

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