How To Install fastd on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fastd on CentOS 8.
What is fastd
fastd is a secure tunneling daemon with some unique features - Very small binary (about 100KB on OpenWRT in the default configuration, including all dependencies besides libc) - Exchangable crypto methods - Transport over UDP for simple usage behind NAT - Can run in 1 - There are no server and client roles defined by the protocol, this is just defined by the usage. - Only one instance of the daemon is needed on each host to create a full mesh If no full mesh is established, a routing protocol is necessary to enable hosts that are not connected directly to reach each other
We can use yum or dnf to install fastd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fastd.
Install fastd on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fastd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fastd
Install fastd on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fastd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fastd
How To Uninstall fastd on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fastd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fastd
fastd Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/fastd
/usr/bin/fastd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/1070fa6de27dff6ea312dd8ac2355897d9f88a
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/share/doc/fastd
/usr/share/doc/fastd/README.md
/usr/share/doc/fastd/crypto
/usr/share/doc/fastd/crypto/ciphers.txt
/usr/share/doc/fastd/crypto/ec25519.txt
/usr/share/doc/fastd/crypto/fhmqvc.txt
/usr/share/doc/fastd/crypto/macs.txt
/usr/share/doc/fastd/crypto/methods.txt
/usr/share/doc/fastd/devel
/usr/share/doc/fastd/devel/building.txt
/usr/share/doc/fastd/devel/protocol.txt
/usr/share/doc/fastd/index.txt
/usr/share/doc/fastd/manual
/usr/share/doc/fastd/manual/cmdline.txt
/usr/share/doc/fastd/manual/config.txt
/usr/share/doc/fastd/manual/methods.txt
/usr/share/doc/fastd/manual/mtu.txt
/usr/share/doc/fastd/releases
/usr/share/doc/fastd/releases/v15.txt
/usr/share/doc/fastd/releases/v16.txt
/usr/share/doc/fastd/releases/v17.txt
/usr/share/doc/fastd/releases/v18.txt
/usr/share/doc/fastd/releases/v19.txt
/usr/share/doc/fastd/releases/v20.txt
/usr/share/doc/fastd/releases/v21.txt
/usr/share/licenses/fastd
/usr/share/licenses/fastd/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/man/man1/fastd.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fastd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
