[Planetlab-devel] questions abouting running an independent myplc

[Keon Jang]

Hi Thierry and Marc,
Thanks for the reply.
I'm Keon and Sue is my advisor.


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Thierry Parmentelat
<thierry.parmentelat at sophia.inria.fr> wrote:
>
> On May 19, 2008, at 5:16 PM, Marc E. Fiuczynski wrote:
>
> Hello Sue,
>
>
> On May 14, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Sue Moon wrote:
>
> - What versino of MyPLC should we run?
>
> I don't know for the Princeton build, but here at Onelab we publish the
> 'stable' builds that relate to 4.2 at
> http://build.one-lab.org/4.2/
> I expect to build an rc3 in the next coming days, that might well be the
> final 4.2 release
> the combination that you want to check first is probably
> planetlab-4.2-rc2.1lab-f8-32/
>
>   We have tried the f8/v4.2 (May 12) build-out.
>
>   We could not create a user nor a site.
>
>   What is the most reliable version at this point?
>
> The web gui that is part of the MyPLC release currently does not include a
> web page to create sites.  Site creation is currently handled offline for
> the public PlanetLab, and for this reason there was a decision in the past
> to not include this in the current MyPLC web gui.  You can certainly create
> sites using the API.   I will bring this up with Reid (our resident web gui
> person) to see whether we should include a site creation page as part of the
> web gui release in MyPLC.
>
> You should have been able to create a user given the default site.  Again,
> if its not there you can do so via the API.
>
> I believe the onelab build has more flexibility for this kind of things
> you may either directly use
> onelab-4.2-rc2.1lab-f8-32/
> or alternately just pick the PLCWWW rpm in there and use it to replace the
> one that comes with the planetlab build
>
>
> - MyPLC user's guide seems to be out of date.
>
>  Any plan to update it soon?
>
>
> Need to add this to our to do this.
>
> I've done that 2 weeks ago; it took a while until the changes made it into
> the build as part of the new myplc-docs package (so I think the 12 may build
> was still missing that), but with recent builds you should have the right
> stuff available at
> <yourplc>/db/doc/myplc.php
> <yourplc>/planetlab/doc/myplc.pdf
> <yourplc>/planetlab/doc/myplc.html
> If there remains any significantly inaccurate information in here, please
> let me know
>
> - Dynamic IP address support
>
>  We read somewhere that dynamic IP support is one of the
>
>  future to-do items.  Is there any progress on it?
>
> I'm backing Marc's question here, it'd help if you were more explicit on
> what you mean by 'dynamic IP'
>

By dynamic IP address, we mean dynamically allocated IP address.
This is the case when we use commercial network such as ADSL or 3G
wireless networks.

> - In order to use a non-ethernet network interface,
>
>  what parts in the bootscript should be modified?
>
> Good question.  I don't think we've ever done this.  Thierry @ OneLab used
> WiFi at one point.  Would need to dig deeper to figure this out.  Out of
> curiosity, what kind of device are you using?
>
> right, what sort of device are you thinking about ?
>

We're thingking about using 3G(CDMA/HSDPA) modems.
Big difference is this kind of modem does not have a MAC addresss.
It requires different initialization process compared to ethernet,
and also requires to re-establish connection when it is lost.

>
> Marc
>
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