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Getting Started
This document will guide you through the process of obtaining a cryptic-net binary and joining the network.
NOTE currently only linux machines with amd64/x86_64 processors are supported. More OSs and architectures coming soon!
Obtaining a cryptic-net Binary
Every host can have a binary built for it which has all configuration for that host embedded directly into it. Such binaries require no extra configuration by the user to use, and have no dependencies on anything else in the user's system.
The process of obtaining a custom binary for your host is quite simple: ask an admin of your network to give you one!
Note that if you'd like to join the network on multiple devices, each device will needs its own binary, so be sure to tell your admin how many you want to add and their names.
Obtaining a cryptic-net Binary, the Hard Way
Alternatively, you can build your own binary by running the following from the project's root:
nix-build -A appImage
(NOTE Dependencies of cryptic-net seemingly compile all of musl and rust
from scratch (it's not clear why, blame garage!). If you have not otherwise
configured it, nix might be using a tmpfs as its build directory, and the
capacity of this tmpfs will probably be exceeded by this build. You can change
your build directory to somewhere on-disk by setting the TMPDIR environment
variable for nix-daemon (see this github issue.))
The resulting binary can be found in the result directory which is created.
In this case you will need an admin to provide you with a bootstrap.tgz for
your host, rather than a custom binary. When running the daemon in the following
steps you will need to provide the --bootstrap-path CLI argument to the daemon
process.
Running the Daemon
Once you have a binary, you will need to run the daemon sub-command as the
root user. This can most easily be done using the sudo command, in a terminal:
sudo /path/to/cryptic-net daemon
This will start the daemon process, which will keep running until you kill it
with ctrl-c.
You can double check that the daemon is running properly by pinging a private IP from the network in a separate terminal:
ping 10.10.0.1
If the pings are successful then your daemon is working!
Installing the Daemon as a Systemd Service
NOTE in the future we will introduce an install sub-command which will
automate most of this section.
Rather than running the daemon manually, you can install it as a systemd service. This way your daemon will automatically start in the background on startup, and will be restarted if it has any issues.
To do so, create a file at /etc/systemd/system/cryptic-net.service with the
following contents:
[Unit]
Description=cryptic-net
Requires=network.target
After=network.target
[Service]
Restart=always
RestartSec=1s
User=root
ExecStart=/path/to/cryptic-net daemon
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Remember to change the /path/to/cryptic-net part to the actual absolute path
to your binary!
Once created, perform the following commands in a terminal to enable the service:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now cryptic-net
You can check the service's status by doing:
sudo systemctl status cryptic-net
and you can view its full logs by doing:
sudo journalctl -lu cryptic-net