How to Set a Perforce Proxy server

Tips: How to Set a Perforce Proxy server

July 20th, 2009bergermanus

Ago some years one of the Codespring Clients what to use the Perforce Source Control systems. It’s now problem for us.

But i what to speed up and optimize little bit the network and the services usage. So i decided i implement a Perforce Proxy server.

I tryed under Windows but i have lot of problems with this. I decided to create a separate PC for this. First time i use a very old pc (i386  arch with 133 Mhz Processor, 128 MB memory and a 20 GB hdd). With time i change this with a virtual machine.

I write some script to manage the service if something is wrong and i need only restart the virtual server. Currently i use Ubuntu for this.

Installation steps

1. Make the /perforce/client directory (where the client is the client name)

2. Copy the script attached to /etc/init.d directory

3. Copy the attached p4p program to /usr/local/bin/ or download from net

4. Make executable the both files (perforce_proxy and p4p)  with  chmod 755 command

5. In the perforce_proxy change the P4P_TARGET value for your client IP.

6. Start the service.

7. On the Client PC try to connect to your internal server like 192.168.0.100:1999

8. To test if the connection use the proxy can you try this command: p4 info

Downlod Perforce proxy

The script:

1. #! /bin/sh
2. # p4pinit
3. # Startup script for Perforce Proxy server.
4. # Check out the man page for start-stop-daemon. Notice I use -b to run p4p
5. # in the background. p4p has a similar option, but I didn’t have as much
6. # success.
7. # http://my.bergersoft.com
8. #
9. #
10. ### BEGIN INIT INFO
11. # Provides:          perforce
12. # Required-Start:    $all
13. # Required-Stop:     $all
14. # Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
15. # Default-Stop:      0 1 6
16. # Short-Description: starts the perforce proxy server
17. # Description:       starts the perforce proxy server on 1999 port
18. ### END INIT INFO
19.  
20. DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/p4p
21. P4P_NAME=p4p_vico
22. P4P_DESC="Perforce Proxy My Client"
23. P4P_CACHE=/perforce/client/cache
24. P4P_PORT=1999
25. P4P_TARGET=127.127.127.127:1666
26. P4P_LOG=/perforce/client/p4p.log
27.  
28. # Check p4p exists
29. test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
30.  
31. case "$1" in
32.  
33. start)
34. echo -n "Starting $P4P_DESC: "
35. start-stop-daemon –start -b -m –pidfile /var/run/$P4P_NAME.pid \
36. –exec $DAEMON – -p $P4P_PORT -t $P4P_TARGET -r $P4P_CACHE -L $P4P_LOG
37. echo "$P4P_NAME."
38. ;;
39.  
40. stop)
41. echo -n "Stopping $P4P_DESC: "
42. start-stop-daemon –stop –pidfile /var/run/$P4P_NAME.pid \
43. –signal KILL –exec $DAEMON –oknodo
44. echo "$P4P_NAME."
45. ;;
46.  
47. *)
48. echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
49. exit 1
50. ;;
51. esac
52.  
53. exit 0