2011-05-13 - asedeno

Old limekiller (the Sun Ultra 5) lost its disk. A new limekiller was
put into service, build on a Sun Fire V20z. These notes were written
post-install.

The ILOM is reachable at limekiller-mgmt.mit.edu.

FreeBSD-RELEASE-8.2 was installed as the base system. The previous
limekiller ran NetBSD. FreeBSD was chosen in part because kaduk is
familiar with it and we can ask him questions, though he was not
consulted on that decision. Installation was mostly default, though we
pulled in the development packages.

After the system was running, the following software was installed out
of ports. (This is not an exhaustive list, but should be everything
needed to get limekiller running, as well as some useful utilities.)
* openbgpd    [core]
* bind98      [core]
* bash        [convenience]
* screen      [convenience]
* emacs-nox11 [convenience]

Interesting configuration files have been copied into AFS, at
/afs/sipb.mit.edu/machine/limekiller/2011-05-13.V20z/conf/ which is a
git repository, though only in AFS. Local version control on
limekiller is being done in RCS, because keeping /etc/ in git feels
wrong, and doesn't even capture all of the configuration files.

/etc/rc.conf -- general system configuration data
/etc/sipbv6.conf -- tunnel configuration, sourced by /etc/rc.conf
/etc/sipbv6.subr -- shell scripts to make sipbv6.conf more concise
/usr/local/etc/bgpd.conf -- BGP configuration for OpenBGPD
/root/bin/restart-network.sh -- tears down all gifN interfaces and
                                reloads network configuration.
/etc/namedb/mit-ipv6.conf -- named configuration, to be included in
                             stock named.conf

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2011-05-17 - asedeno

If you've never configured a cisco router, quagga is
intimidating. That said, we were having issues with route6d dying,
which broke the RLE tunnel, so we switched back to using it anyhow.

* openbgpd [deinstalled]
* quagga   [core]
* rsync    [convenience]

After a few hours we got things working. Config has been committed to
this volume.

/usr/local/etc/bgpd.conf -- removed
/usr/local/etc/quagga/* -- quagga configuration files

If changes are made to the quagga config, they should be rsync'd, as
specified in the README file I left in the quagga config
directory. Eventually I'd like to automate backups of the quagga
configuration.

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2011-06-01 - quentin

Set up monitoring from sipb-noc. For now, just Munin.

* munin-node    [monitoring]
* smartmontools [monitoring]

Config has been committed to this volume.

/etc/rc.conf
/usr/local/etc/munin/munin-node.conf

munin-node-configure --shell --suggest | sh

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2011-07-30 - quentin

Added debugging tools

* tshark [convenience]
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2011-08-10 - asedeno

Switch router advertisement method from quagga to radvd

* radvd [core]
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2012-01-26 - asedeno

Installing git to test some changes to quagga.
(https://bugzilla.quagga.net/show_bug.cgi?id=665)

* git [devel]
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2012-01-28 - asedeno

Installed quagga master from upstrem repo to test fix for
aforementioned bug. Seems to be working fine. Notes are available in
root's homedir. Plan is to switch back to ports version when it is
updated. radvd removed.

* quagga [upstream version]
- radvd [core]
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2018-02-21

I've missed a lot of entries in here.

Now running FreeBSD 11.1, with expected regular updates to stay on
supported releases.

The ILOM has been detached from the network; its SSH does not support
modern DH Grou sizes.