Bandwidth Arbitrator, Installing it on Red Hat Linux 9.0 Options

[Robert83]

Hello everyone,

This is going to be a Badwidth Arbitrator (ver 8.63) install guide on RH9.

First of all you will need to download Red Hat 9 cd1,cd2,cd3 from here http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=7.

Note about the computer I used for my network of 110~ computers and a 256kbit/s down, and 128kbit/s up cable modem line :

CPU : Intel Celeron 2Ghz
RAM : 256 MB DDR
HDD : 4GB Western Digital (some really old model, probably older then me)
ETHERNET : 2x Realtek 100Mbps (RTL8193too)

STEP 1

Put in cd1 into your computer and boot up with it, choose custom installation and select only kernel development tools and make sure you install gcc , its under compilers near the kernel development tools.

Once installation has finished download kernel-2.4.19 (it only works with this kernel without any need to touch the code , or some hacking...so if you just want it to work for the first time , get this kernel) from here ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2....x-2.4.19.tar.gz to for example /home
like this.

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cd /home
wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.19.tar.gz

This will take some time to download it is aprox 30MB in size. Once the kernel has been downloaded
go to /usr/src and do the following.

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cd /usr/src
rm linux
rm linux-2.4
tar zxfv /home/linux-2.4.19.tar.gz
ln -s linux-2.4.19 linux
ln -s linux-2.4.19 linux-2.4

So what we did was removed the old symbolic links to the 2.4.20-8 kernel , and created a new symbolic link that points to kernel 2.4.19.

Okay enough chit-chat let's start recompiling the kernel so that bridge-utils will work.

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cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
cp /boot/config-2.4.20-8 ./.config
make oldconfig
wget http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/bridge-nf-0.0.7-against-2.4.19.diff
patch -p1 < bridge-nf-0.0.7-against-2.4.19.diff
make menuconfig

WARNING:
If you used for example realtek cards when you install rh9 it detected them and it is working, but if you look at Network Devices and 100mbps ethernet in menuconfig you'll see that they are compiled in as modules only, now this will be a problem , since rh9 will no longer see the realtek cards once you reboot to the 2.4.19 kernel, so instead of using the rtl8139 as module you must compile it in , change that M in front of it to a * .

After your done, you only need to make sure that the ethernet device you are using is compiled in , and not used as a module. You can continue with the following steps, wich will take some time, even on my 2Ghz machine it took me 2hrs~.

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make dep
make clean
make
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make install

Once done , reboot the system.

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reboot

At the grub boot menu choose 2.4.19 kernel.

STEP 2

Preparing the bridge utils :

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cd /home
wget http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/bridge-utils-0.9.5.tar
mkdir /bridge
CD /bridge
tar -xvf /home/bridge-utils-0.9.5.tar
CD bridge-utils
make

STEP 3

Setting up the Arbitrator :

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cd /home
wget http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/downloads/arbitrator8.63.tar.gz
mkdir /art
cd /
tar zxfv /home/arbitrator8.63.tar.gz
cd arbitrator8.63
./install.sh

Just answer Y to everything. Then we will recompile the modified kernel again , so that it will work properly with the Arbitrator.

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cd /usr/src/linux
vi .config

CONFIG_BRIDGE_NF in /usr/src/linux/.config nneds to be toggled on if you plan to use the arbitrator
co-resident with a firewall.
Look for CONFIG_BRIDGE_NF and modify it to CONFIG_BRIDGE_NF = Y
Then do the following (this will take another few minutes... 1hrs~) :

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make dep
make clean
make
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make install

Then we recompile the bridge-utils :

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cd /bridge/bridge-utils
make

Then we copy the brctl and brctld files into the correct locations :

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cd /bridge/brctl
cp brctl /usr/local/sbin
chmod 700 /usr/local/sbin/brctl
cp brctld /usr/local/sbin
chmod 700 /usr/local/sbin/brctld

Now let's make sure eth0 and eth1 wont come up automaticaly :

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cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

Using your favorite editor modify both ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 file , changing the following line in both.

ONBOOT=no


Once done with this, we will make the kernel-2.4.19 the default one , do the following :

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cd /boot/grub

Using your favorite editor modift the file @menu.lst

And change the following line :

default = 1

to

default = 0

Then we make sure that upon the next reboot our Arbitrator will be up and running :

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cd /etc/rc.d/

Add the following lines to rc.local file (to the end of it):

/usr/local/sbin/brctl addbr my
/usr/local/sbin/brctl addif my eth0
/usr/local/sbin/brctl addif my eth1
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
/sbin/ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0
/sbin/ifconfig my 192.168.10.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
/sbin/route add default gw 192.168.10.1
/etc/init.d/arbitrate start

You will offcourse use a different IP address for my , and will probably use a different gateway as well, this changes from network to network.

Let's do some basic configuration of the Arbitrator :

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cd /etc

Using your favorite editor modify the file arbdefault.conf :

BRIDGEIP should be the same ip you used for my above
BRIDGENETMASK should be the same netmask you used above for my
BRIDGEROUTE should be the same route you used above for my

For the rest of the config , you need to tune youreself, once I understand and test things out more , I will post aditional info on how to configure Arbitrator for different networks/needs. What config options to use.


So we are finally done, reboot and behold!

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reboot

once it's up and running, don't get nervous, it takes a few seconds for the bridge to come up, so it wont work imediately ... after a 1 min everything should be working okay.

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cd /tmp

cat arblog

and you will see something like this :

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09/10/05 12:20:35 Traffic up: 28648 Traffic  down: 7436  SUBNET 255.255.255.255
09/10/05 12:20:36 INCREASE PENALTY  IP: 192.168.1.195  212.99.255.41 BUFF: 120  DELAY: 21
09/10/05 12:20:50 PENALTY DECREASE: 192.168.1.195 212.99.255.41 to 14
09/10/05 12:20:52 INCREASE PENALTY  IP: 192.168.1.195  212.99.255.41 BUFF: 120  DELAY: 21
09/10/05 12:20:54 PENALTY REMOVE: 192.168.1.195 83.193.209.186
09/10/05 12:20:56 Traffic up: 24181 Traffic  down: 10765  SUBNET 255.255.255.255
09/10/05 12:21:07 PENALTY DECREASE: 192.168.1.195 212.99.255.41 to 14
09/10/05 12:21:11 PENALTY DECREASE: 192.168.1.195 212.99.255.41 to 7
09/10/05 12:21:13 INCREASE PENALTY  IP: 192.168.1.195  212.99.255.41 BUFF: 120  DELAY: 14
09/10/05 12:21:15 PENALTY  IP : 192.168.1.195 83.193.209.186 LPEAK: 6138  WAVG: 8009 BUFF:
122  DELAY: 7
09/10/05 12:21:16 Traffic up: 25865 Traffic  down: 6376  SUBNET 255.255.255.255
09/10/05 12:21:20 INCREASE PENALTY  IP: 192.168.1.195  212.99.255.41 BUFF: 120  DELAY: 21

You should put the arbitrator somewhere between the clients and your internet connection , like this :

LAN1----|
LAN2----|
LAN3----| ROUTER |---Bandwidth Arbitrator---FIREWALL---INTERNET
LAN4----|
LAN5----|

Visit http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ for the manual, and aditional addon software .

And if you got it working, and have a webpage put up a link to www.bandwidtharbitrator.com to support this nice piece of free software.


Sincerely
Robert B