Calvin College Emulab Project

Useful Tips on the Debian router

• In our setup, the Debian router simply needs to perform ip forwarding. To set this up:
  1. Add the line "/net/ipv4/ip_forward=1" to /etc/sysctl.conf
  2. Run the command sysctl -p

• Our Debian box performs an important function in our network having to do with multicast, it runs mrouted. Just use apt-get (apt-get install mrouted) and get it running.

• /etc/init.d/mrouted restart will restart mrouted. You need to do this if frisbee stops working.