Installing Accel-ppp on Ubuntu 22.04

Introduction

• The Accel-ppp project has quite a lot documentation available along with forums which you can go through to gather information.
• Their install instructions served as a reference for the instructions on this page.
• https://docs.accel-ppp.org/installation/ubuntu.html

Install Instructions

• Install the following packages:

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential cmake gcc linux-headers-`uname -r` git libpcre3-dev libssl-dev liblua5.1-0-dev

• Checkout the latest git source code:

sudo git clone https://github.com/accel-ppp/accel-ppp.git /opt/accel-ppp-code

• Create directory for build source code and go to this directory.

sudo mkdir /opt/accel-ppp-code/build
cd /opt/accel-ppp-code/build/

• Generate the Makefile:

sudo cmake -DBUILD_IPOE_DRIVER=TRUE -DBUILD_VLAN_MON_DRIVER=TRUE -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DKDIR=/usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r` -DLUA=TRUE -DCPACK_TYPE=Ubuntu22 ..

• Compile

sudo make

• Create a DEB package

sudo cpack -G DEB

• Install the package

sudo dpkg -i accel-ppp.deb

• If the install went OK you can use the reference config file and make it active

sudo mv /etc/accel-ppp.conf.dist /etc/accel-ppp.conf

• We will cover a basic PPPoE server's config on its own dedicated Wiki page.
• See if it starts up. It should start up wit the default config file

sudo systemctl start accel-ppp
sudo systemctl status accel-ppp

• Make sure the service is enabled for start-up

sudo systemctl enable accel-ppp

• Should you want to start the service up manually

sudo accel-pppd -d -c /etc/accel-ppp.conf -p /var/run/accel-ppp.pid

• Next we will take a look of some of the important files that were installed with the accel-ppp.deb package

Important files

• To discover the files installed with the .deb package we issue the following:

sudo dpkg -L accel-ppp
/etc
/etc/accel-ppp.conf.dist
/etc/default
/etc/default/accel-ppp
/etc/init.d
/etc/init.d/accel-ppp
/lib
/lib/modules
/lib/modules/5.15.0-84-generic
/lib/modules/5.15.0-84-generic/extra
/lib/modules/5.15.0-84-generic/extra/ipoe.ko
/lib/modules/5.15.0-84-generic/extra/vlan_mon.ko
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/accel-cmd
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/systemd
/usr/lib/systemd/system
/usr/lib/systemd/system/accel-ppp.service
/usr/lib64
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libauth_chap_md5.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libauth_mschap_v1.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libauth_mschap_v2.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libauth_pap.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libchap-secrets.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libconnlimit.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libipoe.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libippool.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libipv6_dhcp.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libipv6_nd.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libipv6pool.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libl2tp.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/liblog_file.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/liblog_syslog.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/liblog_tcp.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/liblogwtmp.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libluasupp.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libpppd_compat.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libpppoe.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libpptp.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libradius.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libshaper.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libsigchld.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libsstp.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libtriton.so
/usr/lib64/accel-ppp/libvlan-mon.so
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/accel-pppd
/usr/share
/usr/share/accel-ppp
/usr/share/accel-ppp/l2tp
/usr/share/accel-ppp/l2tp/dictionary
/usr/share/accel-ppp/l2tp/dictionary.rfc2661
/usr/share/accel-ppp/l2tp/dictionary.rfc3931
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.accel
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.alcatel
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.cisco
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.dhcp
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.microsoft
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.mikrotik
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.rfc2865
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.rfc2866
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.rfc2867
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.rfc2868
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.rfc2869
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.rfc3162
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.rfc3576
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.rfc3580
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.rfc4072
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.rfc4372
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.rfc4675
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.rfc4679
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.rfc4818
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.rfc4849
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.rfc5176
/usr/share/accel-ppp/radius/dictionary.rfc6911
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/accel-cmd.1
/usr/share/man/man5
/usr/share/man/man5/accel-ppp.conf.5
/var
/var/log
/var/log/accel-ppp

Next Up

• Be sure to visit the other Wiki Pages that gives you detail on how to configure Accel-ppp.