patching ndt to allow binding to IP alaises
Yes, the Internet 2 exists. Yes, they continue research into tools and protocols for high speed networks. This afternoon, I wanted to set up a server running the Internet 2 Network Diagnostic Tool. I wanted to run it with their "fakewww" server so that it would be isolated away from other services on the server I set aside. While fakewww allows one to specify the port it binds to, it does not allow it to bind to a specific address. Again, I am made sad. So, I fixed it and submitted the patch to the fine folks at Internet2, if they take the patch, I'll edit this to point at the release with the patch.
NDT servers are pretty nifty, here, try out ours: //ndt.hcro.org
These changes work against ndt-3.6.2b.tar.gz (current as of 12 Apr 2010, see //software.internet2.edu/sources/ndt/).
uxmal:~/inst # tar xzf ndt-3.6.2b.tar.gz uxmal:~/inst # patch -p1 < specify-address.patch patching file ndt-3.6.2b/src/fakewww.c patching file ndt-3.6.2b/src/network.c patching file ndt-3.6.2b/src/usage.c uxmal:~/inst # cd ndt-3.6.2b uxmal:~/inst/ndt-3.6.2b # ./configure ... uxmal:~/inst/ndt-3.6.2b # make && make install ... uxmal:~/inst/ndt-3.6.2b # /usr/local/sbin/fakewww -a 74.43.140.29 -p 80 -d May 4 21:06:03 fakewww server started (NDT version 3.6.2b) addr = ndt.hcro.org port = 80 federated mode = off access log = /usr/local/ndt/access_log error log = /usr/local/ndt/error_log basedir = /usr/local/ndt debug level set to 1
Full patch:
diff -up unpatched/ndt-3.6.2b/src/fakewww.c patched/ndt-3.6.2b/src/fakewww.c
--- unpatched/ndt-3.6.2b/src/fakewww.c 2010-03-25 08:45:12.000000000 -0700
+++ patched/ndt-3.6.2b/src/fakewww.c 2010-05-04 20:25:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ static struct option long_options[] = {
{"help", 0, 0, 'h'},
{"alog", 1, 0, 'l'},
{"elog", 1, 0, 'e'},
+ {"address", 1, 0, 'a'},
{"port", 1, 0, 'p'},
{"ttl", 1, 0, 't'},
{"federated", 0, 0, 'F'},
@@ -145,6 +146,8 @@ main(int argc, char** argv)
struct sockaddr_storage cli_addr;
I2Addr listenaddr = NULL;
Allowed* ptr;
+ size_t l = 255;
+ char buf[256];
#ifdef AF_INET6
#define GETOPT_LONG_INET6(x) "46"x
@@ -153,7 +156,7 @@ main(int argc, char** argv)
#endif
while ((c = getopt_long(argc, argv,
- GETOPT_LONG_INET6("dhl:e:p:t:Ff:b:sS:v"), long_options, 0)) != -1) {
+ GETOPT_LONG_INET6("dhl:e:a:p:t:Ff:b:sS:v"), long_options, 0)) != -1) {
switch (c) {
case '4':
conn_options |= OPT_IPV4_ONLY;
@@ -177,6 +180,9 @@ main(int argc, char** argv)
case 'e':
ErLogFileName = optarg;
break;
+ case 'a':
+ srcname = optarg;
+ break;
case 'p':
listenport = optarg;
break;
@@ -262,6 +268,8 @@ main(int argc, char** argv)
tt = time(0);
log_println(1, "%15.15s fakewww server started (NDT version %s)", ctime(&tt)+4, VERSION);
+ I2AddrNodeName( listenaddr, buf, &l );
+ log_println(1, "\taddr = %s", buf);
log_println(1, "\tport = %d", I2AddrPort(listenaddr));
log_println(1, "\tfederated mode = %s", (federated == 1) ? "on" : "off");
log_println(1, "\taccess log = %s\n\terror log = %s", AcLogFileName, ErLogFileName);
diff -up unpatched/ndt-3.6.2b/src/network.c patched/ndt-3.6.2b/src/network.c
--- unpatched/ndt-3.6.2b/src/network.c 2010-04-12 16:02:45.000000000 -0700
+++ patched/ndt-3.6.2b/src/network.c 2010-05-04 20:21:43.000000000 -0700
@@ -109,10 +109,11 @@ OpenSocket(I2Addr addr, char* serv, int
failsock:
/* RAC debug statemement 10/11/06 */
log_println(1, "failsock: Unable to set socket options for fd=%d", fd);
- while((close(fd) < 0) && (errno == EINTR));
+ while(fd > 3 && (close(fd) < 0) && (errno == EINTR));
+ fd = -1;
}
- if (meta.family == 0)
+ if (meta.family == 0 && ai != NULL)
meta.family = ai->ai_family;
return fd;
}
diff -up unpatched/ndt-3.6.2b/src/usage.c patched/ndt-3.6.2b/src/usage.c
--- unpatched/ndt-3.6.2b/src/usage.c 2010-03-01 14:51:39.000000000 -0800
+++ patched/ndt-3.6.2b/src/usage.c 2010-05-04 20:21:43.000000000 -0700
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ www_long_usage(char* info)
printf(" -b, --basedir path - set the basedir for the documents\n");
printf(" -S, --logfacility #F - specify syslog facility name\n");
printf(" Note: this doesn't enable 'syslog'\n");
+ printf(" -a, --address - specify alternate address to bind to\n");
printf(" -p, --port #port - specify the port number (default is 7123)\n");
printf(" -t, --ttl #amount - specify maximum number of hops in path (default is 10)\
n");
printf(" --dflttree fn - specify alternate 'Default.tree' file\n");
Further notes on installation:
The host I decided to install on is running openSUSE 11.1 Linux. The NDT tools require special kernel patches to be installed, which, are helpfully provided at web100.org. The openSUSE 11.1 release comes with Linux Kernel 2.6.27 (sub-versioned to 2.6.27.21-0.1). You should install kernel sources, sun's JDK, and libpcap-devel:
uxmal:~/inst/ndt-3.6.2b # zypper shell zypper> install kernel-source ... zypper> install java-1_5_0-sun-devel ... zypper> install libpcap-devel ...
Now, make backups of your running kernel and modules in /lib/modules/`uname -r`, then apply the patches:
uxmal:/usr/src/linux # patch -p1 < ~/inst/web100/web100-2.6.27-2.5.22-200810130047.patch patching file Documentation/web100/locking.txt patching file Documentation/web100/proc_interface.txt patching file Documentation/web100/sysctl.txt patching file Makefile Hunk #1 FAILED at 1. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file Makefile.rej patching file fs/proc/Makefile ...
Note that the patches applied cleanly, except for Makefile, which collided with the "EXTRAVERSION", which is to be expected. If you follow the NDT cookbook or are already familiar with compiling the Linux Kernel, you'll know why. Short answer, edit with:
EXTRAVERSION = .21-web100
This will isolate the web100 changes away from pre-existing modules, making it easier to back out of the changes.
After this,
uxmal:/usr/src/linux # make oldconfig
scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/x86/Kconfig
#
# using defaults found in /boot/config-2.6.27.21-0.1-pae
#
*
* Restart config...
*
*
* IP: Web100 networking enhancements
*
IP: Web100 networking enhancements (WEB100) [N/y] (NEW) Y
Web100: Extended TCP statistics (WEB100_STATS) [N/y/?] (NEW) Y
Web100: Default file permissions (WEB100_FPERMS) [384] (NEW) Y
Web100: Default file permissions (WEB100_FPERMS) [384] (NEW)
Web100: Default gid (WEB100_GID) [0] (NEW)
Web100: Net100 extensions (WEB100_NET100) [N/y/?] (NEW) Y
Web100: Netlink event notification service (WEB100_NETLINK) [N/y/?] (NEW) Y
#
# configuration written to .config
#
uxmal:/usr/src/linux # make
...
uxmal:/usr/src/linux # make install
...
uxmal:/usr/src/linux # mkinitrd
...
Since openSUSE uses grub, I edited /boot/grub/menu.lst and made sure the default kernel to boot was the web100 enabled one. After a successful reboot, I confirmed web100 extensions were active by:
uxmal:/usr/src/linux # cat /proc/web100/header | head -1 2.5.22 200810130047 net100
Which is the version of web100 patches I installed. Woop!
Notes,
If you do not have a copy of the sun JDK, the default JDK that comes with openSUSE 11.1 is based off of the GNU Java Compiler, which tries to create executables and you will see an error like this when building ndt,
uxmal:~/inst/ndt-3.6.2b # make ... /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.3/../../../crt1.o: In function `_start': /usr/src/packages/BUILD/glibc-2.9/csu/../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S:115: undefined reference to `main' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [Admin.class] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/inst/ndt-3.6.2b/Admin' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/inst/ndt-3.6.2b' make: *** [all] Error 2
I picked 1.5 JDK since NDT is officially supported and tested against JDK 1.4.2. Enough has changed between 1.4.2 and 1.6 that I thought this best. I'm curious to hear if anyone has tried NDT against JDK 1.6...
If you don't install the libpcap-devel libraries and headers, running ./configure in ndt will skip attempting to build web100srv and if you try to build it by hand, you'll see the following error,
uxmal:~/inst/ndt-3.6.2b/src # make web100srv gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/local/include/web100 -I../I2util '-DBASEDIR="/usr/local/ndt"' -pedantic -Wall -O2 -DNDEBUG -DEXPERIMENTAL_ENABLED -DDATABASE_ENABLED -MT web100srv-web100srv.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/web100srv-web100srv.Tpo -c -o web100srv-web100srv.o `test -f 'web100srv.c' || echo './'`web100srv.c web100srv.c:140: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token web100srv.c:141: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token ...
Finally, the startup script, ndt-3.6.2b/conf/ndt is moderately out of date. With some changes, it can be pressed into service under openSUSE,
--- ndt 2010-05-04 22:30:04.000000000 -0700
+++ /etc/init.d/ndt 2010-05-04 22:48:51.000000000 -0700
@@ -5,7 +5,10 @@
# written by Peter Bertoncini <pjb@anl.gov>
# source function library
-. /etc/init.d/functions
+#. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
+
+test -s /etc/rc.status && \
+ . /etc/rc.status
path=/usr/local/sbin
@@ -16,7 +19,8 @@ path=/usr/local/sbin
# Specify some default options.
# WEB100SRV_OPTIONS="-a --snaplog --tcpdump"
NDTD_OPTIONS="-a --snaplog --tcpdump"
-FAKEWWW_OPTIONS=""
+FAKEWWW_OPTIONS="-a ndt.hcro.org -p 80"
+WEB100SRV_OPTIONS="-a -i eth0:ndt"
RETVAL=0
start ()
@@ -26,20 +30,19 @@ start ()
if [ $cnt = 0 ]
then
cd /usr/local/ndt/serverdata
- echo -n "Starting ndtd:"
-# $path/web100srv -r -a -i eth0 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
-# $path/web100srv $WEB100SRV_OPTIONS > /dev/null 2>&1 &
- $path/ndtd $NDTD_OPTIONS > /dev/null 2>&1 &
+ echo -n "Starting web100srv:"
+# $path/web100srv -r -a -i eth0:ndt > /dev/null 2>&1 &
+ $path/web100srv $WEB100SRV_OPTIONS > /dev/null 2>&1 &
+# $path/ndtd $NDTD_OPTIONS > /dev/null 2>&1 &
RETVAL=$?
if [ $RETVAL = 0 ]
then
- success
- # touch /var/lock/subsys/web100srv
+ rc_status -v
+ touch /var/lock/subsys/web100srv
touch /var/lock/subsys/ndtd
else
- failure
+ rc_failed 0
fi
- echo
fi
cnt=`ps auxw | grep fakewww | grep -v grep | wc -l`
@@ -50,12 +53,11 @@ start ()
RETVAL=$?
if [ $RETVAL = 0 ]
then
- success
+ rc_status -v
touch /var/lock/subsys/fakewww
else
- failure
+ rc_failed 0
fi
- echo
fi
}
@@ -63,24 +65,34 @@ stop()
{
# echo -n "Stopping web100srv:"
# killproc web100srv -TERM
- echo -n "Stopping ndtd:"
- killproc ndtd -TERM
+ echo -n "Stopping web100srv:"
+ killproc web100srv -TERM
RETVAL=$?
- echo
- # [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/web100srv
- [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/ndtd
+ if [ $RETVAL = 0 ]
+ then
+ rc_status -v
+ else
+ rc_failed 0
+ fi
+ [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/web100srv
+ #[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/ndtd
echo -n "Stopping fakewww:"
killproc fakewww -TERM
RETVAL=$?
- echo
+ if [ $RETVAL = 0 ]
+ then
+ rc_status -v
+ else
+ rc_failed 0
+ fi
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/fakewww
}
rhstatus() {
# status web100srv
- status ndtd
- status fakewww
+ rc_status ndtd
+ rc_status fakewww
}
restart() {
stop
Note, this leaves the status messages not functioning, but start|stop will work. To apply the patch, save the text to a file called ndt-init.patch in ndt-3.6.2b/conf, then,
uxmal:~/inst/ndt-3.6.2b/conf/ # patch -p0 < ndt-init.patch patching file ndt
Copy the resulting ndt to /etc/init.d/ndt then,
uxmal:~/inst/ndt-3.6.2b/conf # chkconfig ndt on uxmal:~/inst/ndt-3.6.2b/conf # chkconfig ndt ndt on uxmal:~/inst/ndt-3.6.2b/conf # /etc/init.d/ndt start Starting web100srv: done Starting fakewww: done
Last, the default html page must be created using ndt-3.6.2b/conf/create-html.sh,
uxmal:~/inst/ndt-3.6.2b # conf/create-html.sh Welcome to the NDT server configuration program. This program will create a custom tcpbw100.html file for your site. Enter your site name [Internet2] : Hat Creek Radio Observatory Enter your site's location [Ann Arbor - MI] : Hat Creek - CA Server connection info, enter 1 for 100 Mbps, 2 for 1 Gbps [2] : 1 Information for email trouble reporting Enter email userid [rcarlson] : colby Enter email domain name [internet2.edu] : hcro.org Enter default subject line [Trouble report from uxmal] : Trouble report from HCRO NDT The base web page 'tcpbw100.html' has now been created. You must move this file into the ndt_DATA directory [/usr/local/ndt] created during the 'make' process. Do you want to install this file now? [yes] : Enter location [/usr/local/ndt] :
et voila.