How To Install fastd on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fastd
on CentOS 7.
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 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fastd.
Install fastd on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install fastd
using yum
by running the following command:
Install fastd on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install fastd
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall fastd on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the fastd
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fastd
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.