Standard Infrastructure Services

These are standard system services that are facilitating testbed operation

• DNS

Purpose: Provides hostname resolution; the standard BIND9 software package

• DHCP
  • PXE support

Purpose: IP addresses to clients based on their MAC addresses

• TFTP
  • PXE support
• NFS (optional)
• APT Repository (optional)

Purpose: This serves as the debian package repository for local ORBIT packages (such as OML, OTG, Libmac, nodeAgent etc). It uses apache services to fetch and distribute debian packages. For this service, it is sufficient to install just the ORBIT packages. There is no need to mirror the entire debian repository which can be easily accessed by syncing with the external debian repository.