Installation Instructions

IXP1200 Board

VERA requires an active PCI backplane, so, we have to reconfigure the IXP1200EEB. Specifically, we have to change the board jumpers so that it neither generates the global PCI reset signal at power-up nor acted as the PCI arbitrer – both of these functions are performed by motherboards. Next, we must program the firmware supplied by VERA into the on-board Flash EEPROM.

Cross Compiler

• Extract the contents of package ixp1200xcc.tar.bz2

  tar jxf ixp1200xcc.tar.bz2

• Move xcc directory to /usr

  mv xcc /usr

• Edit your .bashrc and append at the end of the file

  . /usr/xcc/xcc.sh

VERA Runtime & Digenis

• Extract the contents of package ixp1200eeb-0.x.tar.bz2

  tar jxf ixp1200eeb-0.x.tar.bz2

• Move to directory ixp1200eeb-0.x

  cd ixp1200eeb-0.x

• Configure and compile

  ./configure
  make
  make install

• You can specify a Linux kernel version different than the running one

  ./configure --with-linux=/usr/src/linux-2.4
  

• Insert the VERA module into the running kernel

  insmod ./ixp-vera-1.0/ixp-runtime-1.0/src/linux-i386/driver/vera.o

• Download Digenis application to run on the IXP1200 network processor

  cd ./ixp-digenis-1.0/src/sa
  sgo digenis.srec

Serial Port Setup

Comming soon.