Running GroupVPN/SocialVPN on the Controller Framework

Usage Instructions (For Ubuntu)

Download

• Download the controller framework

  wget https://github.com/ipop-project/controllers/archive/devel.zip
  

• Run IPOP-Tincan

  sudo sh -c './ipop-tincan-x86_64 1> out.log 2> err.log &'
  

After starting IPOP-Tincan, you can either run the GroupVPN controller or the SocialVPN controller.

Running SocialVPN

• Change directory to svpn

  cd controller/modules/svpn
  

• Change svpn-config.json according to the requirement. Add xmpp_username, xmpp_password and xmpp_host to the config file.

• Start SocialVPN controller

  cd ../../..
  python -m controller.framework.CFx -c controller/modules/svpn-config.json &> log.txt &
  

• Check the status

  echo -e '\x02\x01{"m":"get_state"}' | netcat -q 1 -u 127.0.0.1 5800
  

Killing the Controller

Find out the process IDs of IPOP Tincan and IPOP Controller using the following command

netstat -ntulp

Kill the processes using

kill -9 <process id>

IPOP Structured P2P GroupVPN Controller

Description

This project implements an IPOP GroupVPN controller for end-systems to operate in a structured peer-to-peer virtual private network. The controller is based on the refactored controller framework [1] for the IPOP project [2].

A set of scripts is available for automated preparation and simulation of a testbed for scalable testing of the IPOP network.

[1] https://github.com/GingerNinja23/controller-framework

[2] http://ipop-project.org/ or https://github.com/ipop-project

Usage

Obtaining the source code

git clone https://github.com/ssabogal/ipop-structure-p2p-gvpn-controller
cd ipop-structure-p2p-gvpn-controller
mv ipop/ scale/node/

Preparing physical nodes (using CloudLab)

Create a profile, with at least one node and each node containing the following properties:

• Node Type raw-pc

• Hardware Type C220M4

• Disk Image Other... with URN urn:publicid:IDN+emulab.net+image+emulab-ops:UBUNTU15-04-64-STD

• Check the Publicly Routable IP option

Note: ensure that the host's SSH keys are applied to the CloudLab account.

Instantiate this profile as an experiment.

Using the automated test script

Open the List View tab to view the connections. Copy the connections (of the form <username>@<hostname>) into scale/scale.cfg as NODE, SERVER, or FORWARDER. Also specify the SIZE (the number of IPOP instances)

Run the bash script: bash scale/scale.bash

Enter the following commands (see the README.md in scale/ for information about what these commands do):

install
init
source
config <num_successors> <num_chords> <num_on_demand> <num_inbound>
run all

To view the IPOP network using the available visualizer, enter forward <port> within the bash script.

Using the visualizer:

Note: the visualizer depends on TKinter, use pacman -S tk (in Archlinux) or apt-get install python3-tk (in Ubuntu/Debian).

In scale.bash:

forward <forwarder port>

In a separate terminal:

python3 visualizer.py tcp <forwarder ipv4> <forwarder port> <SIZE> <GUI window size (length)>