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This will automatically install Xenadu, which is required for Swandive to work. setup.sh will also generate random passwords that will be used later in the installation. If you need a primer on launching an EC2 machine instance, read How to prepare an EC2 machine instance for Swandive. This document also explains how to configure an EC2 security policy and set up SSH to work correctly with publickey login. If you're having trouble at any point with the Swandive installation, you should review this EC2 setup document.
Download Swandive to your local machine This will automatically install Xenadu, which is required for Swandive to work. setup.sh will also generate random passwords that will be used later in the installation. curl -s -L https://github.com/iandennismiller/swandive/tarball/master -o swandive.tgz tar xfz swandive.tgz cd iandennismiller-swandive* ./setup.sh
Launch an EC2 instance of ami-3e02f257, and determine its "Elastic IP" and "Private IP address" If you need a primer on launching an EC2 machine instance, read How to prepare an EC2 machine instance for Swandive. This document also explains how to configure an EC2 security policy and set up SSH to work correctly with publickey login. If you're having trouble at any point with the Swandive installation, you should review this EC2 setup document. Once you have launched an EC2 instance, then do the following: Go to the EC2 console: https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home Click Instances, to get a list of all your instances Click on the instance you just created Find the Elastic IP and Private IP address, like the image below:
Edit swandive.ini to set your IP addresses swandive.ini is one of the files included with the swandive distribution. Change public_ip (this is Elastic IP) and private_ip to match your instance. [xenadu] # this is the publicly visible VPN server IP address. # if using EC2, this is the "Elastic IP" public_ip = 50.XXX.XXX.XXX # this is the private IP address Amazon assigned to your ec2 instance private_ip = 10.XXX.XXX.XXX Also, take note of machine_key, user_key, and user_name; your VPN client will use these strings to connect with the VPN server. You should see long, random keys in swandive.ini, but if you instead see USER_KEY, then be sure to run setup.sh which will generate random keys for you. Unless you need to change how your VPN allocates IP addresses, you don't need to deal with the rest of the settings.
Install Swandive Swandive is a Xenadu template, which Xenadu must unpack into a system definition. ./swandive.py --template swandive.ini mv tmpl_files files && mv files/swandive.py ./swandive.py && chmod 755 ./swandive.py Now our system definition is stored in the dirctory files. The following commands will deploy Swandive to the machine instance. ./swandive.py --apt -v && ./swandive.py --build && ./swandive.py --deploy
Ensure ipsec will start during boot, then reboot Here, replace $ELASTIC_IP with public_ip, from swandive.ini. If you created this instance using the example in "How to prepare an EC2 machine instance for Swandive", then $ELASTIC_IP is already set for you. ssh root@$ELASTIC_IP "update-rc.d -f ipsec remove; update-rc.d -f ipsec defaults; reboot now"
Done Swandive is set up, so configure your clients and start using your new VPN! You can find the authentication (i.e. login) information in swandive.ini. For more information about authentication, read "Authentication". To configure an OS X VPN client, read "Configuring the OS X VPN Client" (which is also useful for configuring an iPod/iPad/iPhone.)