Mobile IPv6 user space daemons in Linux (Ubuntu)

There are two mostly up to date distributions of MIPv6 userspace daemons based on MIPL 2.0.2.

• UMIP supported by USAGI project [1][2]
• UMIP.org version, which includes some patches on the UMIP v0.4 from USAGI project

Next it is described how to compile, install and perfom a basic configuration of both versions. It’s up to you to choose one or the other, but only one distribution can be installed on the system. UMIP.org version has more recent updates.

UMIP supported by USAGI project

Installation procedure

Download UMIP v0.4 from http://umip.linux-ipv6.org/

$ wget ftp://ftp.linux-ipv6.org/pub/usagi/patch/mipv6/umip-0.4/daemon/tarball/mipv6-daemon-umip-0.4.tar.gz 

Download last UMIP snapshot version (currently v0.5-rc1)

$ git clone http://www.linux-ipv6.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=gitroot/mipv6-daemon.git

Uncompress both files

$ tar zxfv mipv6-daemon-umip-0.4.tar.gz
$ tar zxfv mipv6-daemon-umip-0.5-rc1.tar.gz

Update UMIP v0.4 with last snapshot source code (v0.5-rc1)

$ cp -rf mipv6-daemon/* mipv6-daemon-umip-0.4/

Install some packages and libraries required for the compilation procedure

$ sudo apt-get install autoconf indent bison flex patch

Compile and install

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

By default the mip6d daemon is installed in /usr/local/sbin. If you want to change the install path and some other options you can do it using the configure script options.

$ ./configure --prefix=

Configuration and running the daemons

Daemons have to be run with superuser privileges.

$ sudo mip6d

UMIP.org version

Installation procedure

Install the required packages for compilation and running.

$ sudo apt-get install autoconf automake bison flex libssl-dev indent ipsec-tools radvd

Download UMIP.org from its git repository

$ git clone git://git.umip.org/umip.git

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Update:
As from one comment by Benjamin Green I have uploaded UMIP.org to GitHub, so now you can just get the code from there. If you want to modify anything just feel free.

$ git clone git://github.com/jlanza/umip.git

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Compile and install

$ cd umip
$ autoreconf -i 
$ CPPFLAGS='-isystem /usr/src/linux/include/' ./configure --enable-vt
$ make
$ sudo make install

By default the mip6d daemon is installed in /usr/local/sbin. If you want to change the install path and some other options you can do it using the configure script options.

Configuration and running the daemons

Daemons have to be run with superuser privileges.

$ sudo mip6d

References

[1] USAGI Project – Linux IPv6 Development Project
[2] Deploying IPsec/IKE-protected MIPv6 under Linux