Running GroupVPN/SocialVPN on the Controller Framework

Usage Instructions (For Ubuntu)

Download

• Download and extract the controller framework

  wget -O controller-framework-beta-v0.3.tar.gz https://goo.gl/UQHfCE
  tar xvzf controller-framework-beta-v0.3.tar.gz
  cd controller-framework-beta-v0.3
  

• Run IPOP-Tincan

  sudo sh -c './ipop-tincan-x86_64 1> out.log 2> err.log &'
  

After starting IPOP-Tincan, you can either run the GroupVPN controller or the SocialVPN controller.

Running GroupVPN

• Change directory to gvpn

  cd gvpn
  

• Change config.json according to the requirement. Add xmpp_username, xmpp_password and xmpp_host to the config file and ensure that the IP addresses are different for all the nodes.

• Start GroupVPN controller

  python CFx.py -c config.json &> log.txt &
  

• Check the status

  echo -e '\x02\x01{"m":"get_state"}' | netcat -q 1 -u 127.0.0.1 5800
  

Running SocialVPN

• Change directory to svpn

  cd svpn
  

• Change config.json according to the requirement. Add xmpp_username, xmpp_password and xmpp_host to the config file.

• Start SocialVPN controller

  python CFx.py -c config.json &> log.txt &
  

• Check the status

  echo -e '\x02\x01{"m":"get_state"}' | netcat -q 1 -u 127.0.0.1 5800
  

Killing the Controller

Find out the process IDs of IPOP Tincan and IPOP Controller using the following command

netstat -ntulp

Kill the processes using

kill -9 <process id>