User-Mode-Linux Testing guide

User mode linux is a way to compile a linux kernel such that it can run as a process in another linux system (potentially as a *BSD or Windows process later). See http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/

UML is a good platform for testing and experimenting with FreeS/WAN. It allows several network nodes to be simulated on a single machine. Creating, configuring, installing, monitoring, and controling these nodes is generally easier and easier to script with UML than real hardware.

You'll need about 500Mb of disk space for a full sunrise-east-west-sunset setup. You can possibly get this down by 130Mb if you remove the sunrise/sunset kernel build. If you just want to run, then you can even remove the east/west kernel build.

Nothing need be done as super user. In a couple of steps, we note where super user is required to install commands in system-wide directories, but ~/bin could be used instead. UML seems to use a system-wide /tmp/uml directory so different users may interfere with one another.

Get the following files:
1. from http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/freeswan/uml/ umlfreeroot-6.0.tar.gz (or highest numbered one). This is a debian potato root file system. You can use this even on a Redhat host, as it has the newer GLIBC2.2 libraries as well.
2. From ftp://ftp.xs4all.nl/pub/crypto/freeswan/ a snapshot or release (1.92 or better)
3. From http://linux.kernel.org mirror, the virgin 2.4.17 kernel. (if you get a future kernel, then please report success/failure. AC kernels already have UML patched, so the patch is unnecessary. Below, set UMLPATCH to /dev/null.)
4. Get http://ftp.nl.linux.org/uml/ uml-patch-2.4.17-10.bz2 or the one associated with your kernel. If you use an AC kernel, you don't need this patch. More recent versions of the patch have not been tested by us.
5. You'll probably want to visit http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net and get the UML utilities. These are not needed for the build or interactive use (but recommended). They are necessary for the regression testing procedures used by "make check". We currently use uml_utilities_20020212.tar.bz2.
6. You need tcpdump version 3.7.1 or better. This is newer than the version included in most LINUX distributions. You can check the version of an installed tcpdump with the --version flag. If you need a newer tcpdump fetch both tcpdump and libpcap source tar files from http://www.tcpdump.org/ or a mirror.

Pick a suitable place, and extract the following files:

2.4.17 kernel. For instance:

            mkdir -p /c2/kernel/linux-2.4.17
           cd /c2/kernel/linux-2.4.17
           tar xzvf ../download/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.17.tar.gz

extract the umlfreeroot file

            mkdir -p /c2/user-mode-linux/basic-root
           cd /c2/user-mode-linux/basic-root
           tar xzvf ../download/umlfreeroot-6.0.tar.gz

FreeSWAN itself (or checkout "all" from CVS)

            mkdir -p /c2/freeswan/sandbox
           cd /c2/freeswan/sandbox
           tar xzvf ../download/snapshot.tar.gz

If you need to build a newer tcpdump:
- Make sure you have OpenSSL installed -- it is needed for cryptographic routines.
- Unpack libpcap and tcpdump source in parallel directories (the tcpdump build procedures look for libpcap next door).
- Change directory into the libpcap source directory and then build the library:
- Change into the tcpdump source directory, build tcpdump, and install it.
If you need the uml utilities, unpack them somewhere then build and install them:

 	cd tools
	make all
	# Need to be superuser to install in system directories.
	# Installing in ~/bin would be an alternative.
	su -c "make install BIN_DIR=/usr/local/bin"

set up the configuration file
- cd /c2/freeswan/sandbox/freeswan-1.97/testing/utils
- copy umlsetup-sample.sh to ../../umlsetup.sh: cp umlsetup-sample.sh ../../umlsetup.sh
- open up ../../umlsetup.sh in your favorite editor.
- change POOLSPACE= to point to the place with at least 500Mb of disk. Best if it is on the same partition as the "umlfreeroot" extraction, as it will attempt to use hard links if possible to save disk space.
- Set TESTINGROOT if you intend to run the script outside of the sandbox/snapshot/release directory. Otherwise, it will configure itself.
- KERNPOOL should point to the directory with your 2.4.17 kernel tree. This tree should be unconfigured! This is the directory you used in step 2a.
- UMLPATCH should point at the bz2 file you downloaded at 1d. If using a kernel that already includes the patch, set this to /dev/null.
- FREESWANDIR should point at the directory where you unpacked the snapshot/release. Include the "freeswan-snap2001sep16b" or whatever in it. If you are running from CVS, then you point at the directory where top, klips, etc. are. The script will fix up the directory so that it can be used.
- BASICROOT should be set to the directory used in 2b, or to the directory that you created with RPMs.
- SHAREDIR should be set to the directory used in 2c, to /usr/share for Debian potato users, or to $BASICROOT/usr/share.

 cd $TESTINGROOT/utils
sh make-uml.sh

You will have a bunch of stuff under $POOLSPACE. Open four xterms:

     for i in sunrise sunset east west
    do
        xterm -name $i -title $i -e $POOLSPACE/$i/start.sh     done

Login as root. Password is "root" (Note, these virtual machines are networked together, but are not configured to talk to the rest of the world.)
verify that pluto started on east/west, run "ipsec look"
login to sunrise. run "ping sunset"
login to west. run "tcpdump -p -i eth1 -n" (tcpdump must be version 3.7.1 or newer)
Closing a console xterm will shut down that UML.
You can "make check", if you want to. It is run from /c2/freeswan/sandbox/freeswan-1.97.

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