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RADIUSdesk Accel-ppp Agent

Overview

• The RADIUSdesk Acell-ppp Agent is a lightweight add-on to Ubuntu or Raspberry Pi devices that serves as a broker between Acell-ppp and RADIUSdesk.
• It uses a couple of Lua based libraries and scripts to fulfill its mandate.

Installation

Please double check

• Make sure the iptables package is installed. (It was not installed on my Raspberry Pi OS image)

sudo apt-get install iptables

• Make sure packet forwarding for IPv4 is enabled. Edit the /etc/sysctl.conf.
• Find and uncomment net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 line.

The Rest

• We assume you already have a device that has Acell-ppp installed as per instructions elsewhere on this Wiki.
• Install the following packages.

sudo apt-get install -y curl lua-socket lua-cjson luarocks
sudo luarocks install inifile

• Check out the latest RADIUSdesk code

cd /var/www
sudo git clone https://github.com/RADIUSdesk/rdcore.git
#Link the accel-ppp agent's files to /etc directory
ln -s /var/www/rdcore/cake4/rd_cake/setup/accel-ppp/MESHdesk /etc/MESHdesk

Configuration

Startup and config file

• Copy the following reference files:

#config file for the agent
sudo cp /etc/MESHdesk/files/accel-ppp-rd.conf /etc/
#startup file. We make a backup first of the original one (of there were one)
cp /etc/rc.local /etc/rd.local.bak
sudo cp /etc/MESHdesk/files/rc.local /etc/

• Configuration is done by tweaking the /etc/accel-ppp-rd.conf file.
• Refer to the sample below

[internet]
disabled=0
dns=cloud.radiusdesk.com
protocol=https
http_port=80
https_port=443
ip=164.160.89.129
 
[pppoe]
interface=eth0