Zixi Broadcaster expects the following Linux packages to be installed:
| Code Block |
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yum-utils net-tools wget ntp network-scripts telnet |
These are RHEL 7 package names; it may be necessary to determine equivalent package names if another OS is being used.
Zixi Broadcaster is designed to configure networking configs using capabilities provided by the network-scripts package. If the OS includes the network-scripts package, it should be installed and the NetworkManager package should be removed.
If the OS does not include the network-scripts package, then NetworkManager should be installed. In the latter case, Zixi Broadcaster will not have full capability to modify network configs and the user must do that through the OS command line.
Hardware
CPU:
Intel i3/i5/i7 dual core or Xeon quad core or above
AMD Ryzen and EPYC quad core or above;
AWS Graviton2/3;
Other ARMv8 64-bit (Raspberry Pi, Ampere, etc)
RAM: 2 GB RAM (minimum)
Networking: 2 x 1GB network card
Operating System
RHEL 7.x equivalent - CentOS 7.x, Oracle Linux 7, 64-bit
RHEL 9.x equivalent - AlmaLinux 9.x, Oracle Linux 9, 64-bit
Amazon Linux 2
Linux Ubuntu 18, 20, 22, 64-bit
Other 64-bit Linux distributions with glibc 2.14+ may work as well
Non-GUI server distribution recommended due to conflicts with NetworkManager GUI application.