[retronet-core] Test RetroNet VPN concentrator.

[John P. Willis]

On Sun, 9 Sep 2018, Grant Taylor via retronet-core wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> I think we are ready to stand up a test RetroNet core VPN concentrator.
>
> The VXLAN-over-WireGuard has gone a LOT simpler and I think that you should 
> be able to install what's needed on the concentrator.
>

Certainly.

> In fact, I'd appreciate it if you (or someone other than me) would do this. 
> I'm asking for someone else to do it as a sanity check and to make sure that 
> things get documented such that they can be successfully executed.
>
> To that end, would someone please do the following:
>
> 1)  Install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server in a VM that can have a globally routed 
> IP.  (I think NAT may be okay.)
> 2)  Add the wireguard repository.
>
>      add-apt-repository ppa:wireguard/wireguard
>
> 3)  Install WireGuard and Open vSwitch.
>
>      apt-get update && apt-get install wireguard openvswitch-switch
>
> Once that's done, we can start kibitzing about the VPNs and OvS & VTEPs.
>

Let me look over what compute resources I have available. I may be able to 
throw an entire bare-metal server at this. If there is a problem with such 
a scenario that you can envision, I can probably do a VM as long as we 
don't need much RAM for it.

>
>
> -- 
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die
>
>

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