System Requirements

Current System Requirements are as follows:

1. Linux PC

Just about any PC will do. Don't try to use a small memory footprint machine; however, 32M of memory should suffice. Most OpenSS7 packages do not use more than about 1M of kernel. Intel architecture is not required. Most packages build on PPC, HPPA and other architectures supported by Linux.

2. Linux 2.4.x Kernel

LiS 2.16.18 runs nicely with 2.4.x kernels. We have released 2.4 versions of the SCTP and SS7 stacks (0.8.2+). These will run on SMP as well. We started with RH 7.2 (no updates) running Linux 2.4.7-10. We now use RH 7.2 (updates) with a stock (kernel.org) 2.4.18 kernel and RH 9 (updates) with a stock RH kernel.

Our autoconf and rpm releases install nicely on most distributions (including RedHat 7.x, 8, 9, fc1, Debian). Avoid recent RedHat AS3 kernels (partially 2.6) until we get things running on WhiteBox Linux.

3. LiS STREAMS 2.16 or later

LiS STREAMS 2.16.18 can be obtained from ftp://ftp.gcom.com/pub/linux/src/LiS/LiS-2.16.18.tgz. LiS must be correctly loaded and installed to be able to compile the OpenSS7 STREAMS packages. Refer to instructions in the LiS package for its installation. You can go to GCom's site if you are interested in more information on LiS.

But, check out our autoconf release of LiS-2.16.18-10 on the downloads page. We got tired of supporting LiS, so we packaged it up using autoconf and rpm, so you can now simply download and install the rpms. Also, see the RPMS directory. (We'll make the pages look nice later...)