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OpenVPN Bridges
Enable Packet forwarding for IPv4
- The machine running CoovaChilli will act as a router and thus needs to be configured as such.
- This means that the IP packets needs to be forwarded from one interface to the other.
- Edit the /etc/sysctl.conf.
- Find and uncomment net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 line.
Building and Installing Coova Chilli
- The version of CoovaChilli is 1.6 as of this writing.
- We will download and build the .deb package from source.
- First ensure the required packages to build the .deb package are installed.
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libjson-c-dev gengetopt sudo apt install devscripts debhelper
- Download the release 1.6's .tar.gz file of the source here: https://github.com/coova/coova-chilli/releases
- Before we can build the package, we have to remove a dependency (hasrl) specified in the Debian control file.
- This dependency is not required and including it causes trouble when you want to install the package.
# If you downloaded with wget tar -xzvf 1.6.tar.gz # If you downloaded with the browser tar -xzvf coova-chilli-1.6.tar.gz cd coova-chilli-1.6/ vi debian/control #Look for this part #------ #Depends: # ${shlibs:Depends}, # iptables, # haserl, # adduser, #------ #------ CHANGE TO THIS (remove haserl as a dependency) #------ #Depends: # ${shlibs:Depends}, # iptables, # adduser, #----- debuild -i -us -uc -b cd .. sudo dpkg --install coova-chilli_1.6_amd64.deb
- From the output of the dpkg command you will see that CoovaChilli is by default disabled. In the next section we will configure it to become a working entity.
Selecting previously unselected package coova-chilli. (Reading database ... 125842 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack coova-chilli_1.6_amd64.deb ... Unpacking coova-chilli (1.6) ... Setting up coova-chilli (1.6) ... Chilli default off. Look at /etc/default/chilli Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.2) ... Processing triggers for systemd (245.4-4ubuntu3.6) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...