Apply all necessary steps from R Consulting Appliances Installation, Initial configuration checklist first.
DHCP and Name server are optional components. Internal or external servers might be used, depending on network topology and configuration.
Neither is used, nor required, unless set-top box is directly connected to provider’s network (i.e. not applicable for OTT service).
Create /etc/rcons/mstream/update.conf
with content similar to base_url=http://<rcboss-url>/RCBillInterconnect/CDN/<operator-id>
.
This file can be shared amongst servers.
Local DHCP server can run in BRAS (broadband remote access server) mode, using macfw
module, in which case there is no need to explicitly configure VLANs on the appliance, itself.
To enable the DHCP server:
Create DHCP server configuration file /etc/dhcpd.conf
(/etc/dhcpd.conf.example
is provided; refer to dhcpd(8)
, dhcpd.conf(5)
, dhcp-options(5)
and dhcp-eval(5)
man pages); to test DHCP server configuration file run dhcpd -cf /etc/dhcpd.conf -t -q
;
If running in non-BRAS mode:
Create /etc/sv/dhcpd/config
with content like iface=igb0
; to bind to multiple interfaces/VLANs use iface="igb0 igb1"
;
If started from /etc/dhcpd.conf.example
remove local-address
line;
If running in BRAS mode (macfw
module):
Create /etc/sv/dhcpd/config
containing iface=relay
;
Configure macfw
, create /etc/sv/macfw/config
(/etc/sv/macfw/config.example
is provided); be sure to match addresses in macfw_ips
to DHCP server configuration;
Enable macfw
module, create the following symbolic links:
ln -s ../sv/auth-macfw \
../sv/macfw \
../sv/macfw-dhcp-relay \
../sv/macfw-metrics-httpd \
/etc/service/
Test DHCP service manually: navigate to /etc/sv/dhcpd
and start ./run
; run
will exit if configuration is incorrect and will complain in the system log; otherwise run
will continue running indefinitely in foreground, stop it with Ctrl+C
;
Enable the DHCP service permanently: create a symbolic link
ln -s ../sv/dhcpd /etc/service/
Create /etc/unbound.conf
(/etc/unbound.conf.example
is provided; refer to unbound(8)
, unbound.conf(5)
and unbound-checkconf(8)
man pages);
Enable Name server by adding
local_unbound_config="/etc/unbound.conf"
local_unbound_enable="YES"
to /etc/rc.conf.d/local_unbound
(or /etc/rc.conf
) and execute service local_unbound restart
.
Both files can be shared amongst servers.
rcxdhcpd
Create a data volume where to save DHCP leases (run setup-storage vol1 <device> 2G
; the name of first SATA DOM typically is ada0
);
Enlist new volume in /etc/rc.conf
, as instructed by setup-storage
, and optionally add datamount_vol1_opts="sync,noatime"
;
Mount new data volume by running service datamount start
;
Configure rcxdhcpd
to save its state there by adding
rcxdhcpd_hostcfgdir=/srv/vol1/rcxdhcpd/hostcfg
rcxdhcpd_statedir=/srv/vol1/rcxdhcpd
to /etc/rc.conf
.
(Optionally) Transfer current rcxdhcpd
state to persistent location:
sv down dhcpd
tar cf - -C /var/db rcxdhcpd | tar xf - -C /srv/vol1
sv start dhcpd
Save configuration changes (because /etc/rc.conf
were modified).