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Mudfish is an application which could be used to avoid the network congestion by changing the physical routing path through Mudfish VPN servers.

Download

The latest package found at the download section of http://mudfish.net . The packages for 32 bit and 64 bit machines are available.

For Windows

Install and Uninstall

Install

The first screen of Mudfish installer is the component menu.

Select components

There are two components and each item installs as follows:

  • Mudfish - Core Binaries

    Core files. Three programs are contained that Mudfish Core, Mudfish Flow Controller and Mudfish Launcher.

  • TAP-Win32 Adapter v9

    Miniport adapter working with core programs. tap0901 driver distributed by OpenVPN technology Inc. will be installed.

Next step is an installation folder selection. In this document we assume that you install the program at C:\Program Files\Mudfish Cloud VPN ( C:\Program Files (x86)\Mudfish Cloud VPN for 64-bit machine).

Select installation folder

After selecting the install folder then click ‘Install’ button.

Error screen on the certificate

If this’s your first installation for Mudfish, you could encounter the following warning messages to install TAP-Win32 Adapter v9. This network driver must be installed.

If you’re a Windows 7 user, the following dialog box could come up.

Diaglog box of Windows 7

Keeps going to install.

Completed

Uninstall

With Windows Explorer, please move to C:\Program Files\Mudfish Cloud VPN folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Mudfish Cloud VPN in 64-bit machine). Just run uninstall.exe file.

It will uninstall all files and directory including TAP-Win32 Adapter v9 driver.

How to use

Mudfish consists of three programs that Mudfish Core (mudfish.exe), Mudfish Flow Controller (mudflow.exe) and Mudfish Launcher (mudrun.exe). Each program’s roles are as follows:

  • Mudfish Core (mudfish.exe)

    Core program to handle the routing table, RX/TX packets and the communication between Master server. Command line options are also available to launch it at Windows console.

  • Mudfish Flow Controller (mudflow.exe)

    Flow controller to manage the routing table and RTT measurement.

  • Mudfish Launcher (mudrun.exe)

    Web UI based on the reverse proxy.

Launch it!

Let’s launch Mudfish Launcher.

  • Opens “Mudfish Launcher” from “All Programs” -> Mudfish”. If you’re a Windows Vista/7/8 user it should run as adminirator privileges by right-clicking on “Mudfish Launcher” icon, and selecting “Run as administrator”.
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If it works with problems, your default browser’ll be opened and move to http://127.0.0.1:8282

Port number could be vary that one of random number (1024 - 65535) if port 8282 is in use.

Sign in

If Mudfish Launcher is working correctly, your default browser’ll be launched then automatically visit the Web UI as follows:

Sign in for "Mudfish Launcher"

How to use Mudfish Launcher

The following screen will be shown when the sign-in process was good.

"Mudfish Launcher" Dashboard

Now it’s ready to use all Mudfish nodes.

Stop Mudfish

Clicks the exit menu of Mudfish’s system tray icon if you want to terminate. If it’s not existed properly, the following processes should be killed by Task Manager:

  • mudfish.exe
  • mudflow.exe
  • mudrun.exe

For Mac OS X

Install tap(4) driver

Mac OS X does not have tap(4) driver as default so we need to install tap(4) driver to use Mudfish first. For Mac OS X, it’s available at http://tuntaposx.sourceforge.net/

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Download the latest package file.

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Unzip the file then you can see the package.

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Install it.

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During installing tap(4) driver, it requires root permission because it’s kernel module.

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Done to install.

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If you’re familiar to use Terminal, you could check status of tap/tun kernel module using kextstat command.

mac:~ weongyo$ kextstat
  ...
  111    0 0xffffff7f81dd2000 0x7000     0x7000     foo.tap (1.0) <7 5 4 1>
  112    0 0xffffff7f81dd9000 0x8000     0x8000     foo.tun (1.0) <7 5 4 1>
  ...

These kernel modules will be automatically reloaded whenever Mac OS X booted.

Install and Uninstall

Install

We assume that you downloaded a Mudfish package from the download page and the file extension of package is ”.dmg”. With double-clicking the file, it’ll be mounted on the OS and show the folder. You can install the Mudfish by copying the icon into Applications folder.

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Like other applications, the drag-and-drop into Applications folder is all to install

Warning

Please note that just clicking the Mudfish icon on .dmg image would not work. It’s required to install it into the Applications to run.

Uninstall

Like other applications, moving the application icon into Trash is all. However if you’d like to remove manually, the below command could be used to remove all files.

$ sudo rm -rf /Applications/Mudfish\ Cloud\ VPN.app/

How to use

Mudfish consists of three programs that Mudfish Core (mudfish), Mudfish Flow Controller (mudflow) and Mudfish Launcher (mudrun). Each program’s roles are as follows:

  • Mudfish Core (mudfish)

    Core program to handle the routing table, RX/TX packets and the communication between Master server. Command line options are available to launch it at console.

  • Mudfish Flow Controller (mudflow)

    Flow controller to manage the routing table and RTT measurement.

  • Mudfish Launcher (mudrun)

    Web UI based on the reverse proxy.

Launch it!

Warning

As some security reasons, running the Mudfish could be blocked with the following window:

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Then you should manually add the application at the exceptional list which is available at ‘System Preferences -> Security & Privary’ menu.

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When it’s launched, it’ll ask your root’s password.

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If it works successfully, the icon will be shown on the top-right as follow.

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Please note that Mudfish requires root permission to launch because

  • It needs to use raw-socket interface for calculating RTT (Round Trip Time) with ICMP protocol.
  • It needs to modify the system routing table for redirecting the specific traffic.
  • It needs to launch dhclient(8) for fetching IP address.

When it’s launched, it opens a listening address at 127.0.0.1:8282 accessable with web broswer using http://127.0.0.1:8282

Sign in

If Mudfish Launcher is working correctly, your default browser’ll be launched when you click ‘Open Dashboard’ menu on the Mudfish menulet icon as follows:

Sign in for "Mudfish Launcher"

How to use Mudfish Launcher

The following screen will be shown when the sign-in process was good.

"Mudfish Launcher" Dashboard

Now it’s ready to use all Mudfish nodes

Stop Mudfish

At the Mudfish menulet icon, the exit menu is available to terminate. If you’d like to kill all Mudfish processes, the following is processes used by Mudfish application.

  • mudfish
  • mudflow
  • mudrun

For Linux

Install and Uninstall

Install

We assume that that you downloaded a Mudfish package from the download page and its file extension is .sh.

$ wget http://static.loxch.com/releases/mudfish-4.3.8-linux-x86_64.sh
$ sudo sh mudfish-4.3.8-linux-x86_64.sh
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Mudfish v4.3.8......
Installation is done under /opt/mudfish/4.3.8.
$ ls -l /opt/mudfish/4.3.8/bin/

At linux pacakge, there are three executable binary files and the installation path would be always /opt/mudfish/$(VERSION)/bin/. Please note that $(VERSION) is vary depending on what version you’re installed.

Uninstall

The below command could be used to remove Mudfish package.

$ sudo rm -rf /opt/mudfish/4.3.8/

How to use

Mudfish consists of three programs that Mudfish Core (mudfish), Mudfish Flow Controller (mudflow) and Mudfish Launcher (mudrun). Each program’s roles are as follows:

  • Mudfish Core (mudfish)

    Core program to handle the routing table, RX/TX packets and the communication between Master server. Command line options are available to launch it at console.

  • Mudfish Flow Controller (mudflow)

    Flow controller to manage the routing table and RTT measurement.

  • Mudfish Launcher (mudrun)

    Web UI based on the reverse proxy.

Launch it!

Let’s launch Mudfish Launcher. The version could vary depending on your package.

$ sudo /opt/mudfish/4.3.8/bin/mudrun

Mudfish requires root permission to launch because

  • It needs to use raw-socket interface for calculating RTT (Round Trip Time) with ICMP protocol.
  • It needs to modify the system routing table for redirecting the specific traffic.
  • It needs to launch dhclient(8) for fetching IP address.

When it’s launched, it opens a listening address at 127.0.0.1:8282 accessable with web broswer using http://127.0.0.1:8282

Sign in

On Linux system you should manually open the browser and access to Mudfish UI which is normally available at http://127.0.0.1:8282

Sign in for "Mudfish Launcher"

How to use Mudfish Launcher

The following screen will be shown when the sign-in process was good.

"Mudfish Launcher" Dashboard

Now it’s ready to use all Mudfish nodes.

Stop Mudfish

Terminates mudrun process with Ctrl-C if you’re running as foreground process or kill(1) it.

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