Commit 8a49507b authored by Julien Muchembled's avatar Julien Muchembled

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Resilient, Scalable, IPv6 Network application
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:Author: Nexedi <re6stnet@erp5.org>
:Author: Julien Muchembled <jm@nexedi.com>
Overview
========
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- create large networks
- give ipv6 addresses to machines with only ipv4 available
Building an ipv4 network is also supported if you have software that does not
support ipv6.
HOW IT WORKS
============
A re6stnet network consists of at least one server (re6st-registry) and many
nodes (re6stnet). The server is only used to deliver certificates for secure
authentification in establishing tunnels, and to bootstrap new nodes.
authentication in establishing tunnels, and to bootstrap new nodes.
re6stnet can detect and take into account nodes present on the local network.
Resilience
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Scalability
-----------
Since each node has very few data about the network, re6stnet is easily
scalable to tens of thousand of nodes
Since nodes don't need to know the whole graph of the network, re6stnet is
easily scalable to tens of thousand of nodes.
Requirements
============
- Python 2.6 or 2.7
- OpenSSL binary and development libraries
- OpenVPN
- OpenVPN >= 2.3
- Babel_ (with Nexedi patches)
- python-miniupnpc for UPnP support (optional)
- for the demo: miniupnpd_, Graphviz, Screen, Nemu_
- for the demo: miniupnpd_, Graphviz, Screen_, Nemu_
See also `setup.py` for Python dependencies.
.. _Babel: http://git.erp5.org/gitweb/babeld.git
.. _Nemu: http://code.google.com/p/nemu/
.. _Babel: https://lab.nexedi.com/nexedi/babeld
.. _Nemu: https://github.com/thetincho/nemu
.. _miniupnpd: http://miniupnp.free.fr/
.. _Screen: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/screen
Installation
============
re6stnet is distributed as a Python egg, and is also packaged for DEB & RPM
based distributions:
| Official packaging is implemented at
| https://lab.nexedi.com/nexedi/slapos.package/tree/master/obs/re6st
| and packages are built for many Linux distributions at
| https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:VIFIBnexedi/Re6stnet
See `re6st-registry` to set up a re6st network
and `re6st-conf` to join an existing network.
| re6stnet is also distributed as a Python egg:
| https://pypi.python.org/pypi/re6stnet
On Debian Squeeze, you will have to install `babeld` package from Wheezy.
Usage
=====
In order to build DEB snapshot package whose version is derived from current
Git revision, the `debian/changelog` file must be generated automatically,
that's why you can't use `dpkg-buildpackage` directly: run ``debian/rules``
instead. RPM does not have this limitation: do `rpmbuild -bb re6stnet.spec``
as usual.
See ``re6stnet``\ (8) man page.
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VERSION = $(shell python re6st/version.py)
# In order to build DEB snapshot package whose version is derived from current
# Git revision, the `debian/changelog` file must be generated automatically,
# that's why you can't use `dpkg-buildpackage` directly: run `debian/rules`
# instead.
build-package: debian/changelog
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b
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