User guide

3: Client Software Installation
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3.3.1 Prepare the System for Installation
Make sure you have enough disk space for the software installations. Freeway client soft-
ware is approximately 25 MB maximum. Protocol software (loopback program) instal-
lations are much smaller.
The software installations copy files from the CDROM to the hard drive on your client
system. All the files are contained within the “Freeway directory tree” where “freeway”
is the top level directory in the tree. You can change the default installation directory if
you wish. On UNIX systems, files are normally installed under
/usr/local/freeway. On
OpenVMS systems, they are normally installed under
SYS$SYSDEVICE:[FREEWAY].On
Windows systems, they are normally installed under
C:\freeway.
3.3.2 Define the Freeway to the Client System
As an option, you may define a name on your client system that is associated with the
Freeway’s IP address. This will allow your programs to communicate with Freeway
without having to use the dot-separated IP address. You may assign different names to
the same IP address. The loopback programs normally use “freeway_0” for the Freeway
server name. It would help with testing if you defined “freeway_0” as an alias to one of
the server names. The following examples show how to define a name on your client
system:
UNIX Systems: The IP addresses and system names of computers on the network are
maintained in the
/etc/hosts file. If your network is managed by a domain name server,
the
hosts file should not be edited locally, as it is maintained and distributed by the
domain name server. If you are not using a domain name server, this file can be edited
on the client system (with the proper file permissions). Figure 3–1 shows a sample
UNIX
/etc/hosts file in which the client system has an IP address of 192.168.45.1 and a sys-
tem name of
devel.
Open the hosts file for editing. Select a system name for the Freeway server and enter it
on a line in the
hosts file along with the IP address that was assigned to the Freeway