Standalone Mode

For local use and testing, it is sometimes convenient to run Anetd in standalone mode. Running Anetd in standalone mode changes the default values of certain configuration settings (see Section 3.4) and also disables the automatic downloading of access control files from ABOCC servers (see Section 3.2.3).

Invoking Anetd with the -s command-line switch explicitly forces Anetd to run in standalone mode. Anetd can also be implicitly put into standalone mode by running Anetd from an OS account that does not correspond to one of the ABone roles and not invoking it with the -a option to map it to one of those roles.

The following table attempts to make this clearer:

Command-line Argument	Example OS Account	Mode
-s	*any*	standalone mode
neither -s nor -a	user1234	standalone mode
neither -s nor -a	anpub	ABone mode
-a anpub	user1234	ABone mode

For more information on the ABone and ABone node configuration, see the main ABone web site: http://www.isi.edu/abone/. See Sections 3.4 and 3.5 of this document for information on Anetd configuration and invocation.