Installation

1. Requirements

• To generate a Makefile qmake, must be installed. This can be done with the following command:

    apt-get install qt4-qmake
  

• To build the mcproxy, the libraries boost_threat, boost_date_time and boost_system must be installed. This can be done with the following command:

    apt-get install libboost-all-dev
  

• To use the IPv6 functionality the kernel has to be configured and compiled with the experimental kernel feature <IPv6: multicast routing>. For more Details see this page.

• To use more then one proxy instance for IPv4 and IPv6 the kernel has to be configured and compiled with the experimental kernel feature <IP: multicast policy routing> and <IPv6: multicast policy routing>. For more Details see this page.

• To build the documentation, doxygen must be installed. This can be done with the folling command:

    apt-get install doxygen
  

• The mcproxy has to be started with root privileges.

• A Linux kernel version greater than version 2.6.32 is required.

2. Compilation

• Build mcproxy

    qmake mcproxy.pro
    make
  

3. Installation

• To copy mcproxy to system directories, run (optional):

    make install
  

4. Documentation

• Mcproxy includes a HTML documentation. The documentation will be located in the docs/ directory after the execution of:

    make doc
  

5. Startup

• For information on how to use mcproxy see Startup.