Installation and setup instructions for non-EdgeOS (generic Linux) devices

Thanks so much for this great project. It works flawlessly for me, and as a Python developer I’m particularly grateful for the clean and readable code!

Initially when I found this repo I dismissed it for my own use because it appeared from the README to work only for Ubiquiti devices. Once I gave up on all the other (non-proxy) options and looked more carefully at the code, however, I realized there’s very little that is Ubiquiti-specific to this solution. I have it working on a Debian server right now and I’m fairly certain everything (except for the DHCP restart bits) will work fine on nearly any Linux-based device.

Would you be open to a PR (probably all README tweaks) to clarify that this can be used on other Linux-based devices, along with a sample config for Debian-based OSes? I’m happy to put something together if so. Another thought would be to make this pip-installable. I’m not sure if Ubiquiti devices come with pip installed, but if they do that might simplify the installation process. Again I’m happy to work on this myself and submit a PR if you’re open to it.

Thanks again for the great project!

[tobiasmcnulty]

Sample supervisor setup, until I have time to push up a PR for the README:

# apt install -y supervisor python3-setuptools
# easy_install3 install pip
# pip3 install -U eap_proxy
# cat <<EOF > /etc/supervisor/conf.d/eap_proxy.conf 
[program:eap_proxy]
command=/usr/local/bin/eap_proxy --ignore-start --ignore-logoff --run-as nobody eth0 eth2
autostart=true
startretries=100
redirect_stderr=true
stdout_syslog=true
EOF
# supervisorctl reload
# supervisorctl status

Tips:

• If you already have pip3 installed you can skip installing python3-setuptools and pip manually, but you might want to pip3 install -U pip first.
• It may be helpful to get eap_proxy working manually before attempting to run via supervisor.
• Make sure to set eth0 and eth2 to your IF_WAN and IF_ROUTER, respectively.
• You can find the log file in /var/log/supervisor.

Disclaimer: The pip-installable eap_proxy is built from the tobiasmcnulty/eap_proxy fork of this repo, which is identical (as of 8/12/19), other than for the presence of a setup.py. See: https://github.com/jaysoffian/eap_proxy/compare/master...tobiasmcnulty:master

[tobiasmcnulty]

@cordone My semi-working config can be found in a comment above: https://github.com/jaysoffian/eap_proxy/issues/21#issuecomment-520637447