Dipak:
Hello! Some answers for you:
1. Kaboodle 0.99a, which you can download on the website, has
a functional VPN capability. As far as I know.
2. There is no "documentation" per-se on the recent changes
made to 0.99a. In general, all that was added was a new
UI component to the VPN capability, where the end user
can specify an Internet address to connect with, rather
than always having to do an "automatic search". For some
reason I don't understand, this "direct connection" code
doesn't actually intiate a VPN connection.
Importantly, with the work you're doing, the "automatic
search" capability will change completely. Right now, in 0.99a,
Kaboodle finds a VPN partner like this: when the user presses
Connect, Kaboodle looks in the registry for the last-known-successful
IP address for that Partner, and tries to connect directly to that
IP address (up to 3 different IP addresses are tried: the last 3
successful IP addresses are stored). If there is no registry entry,
Kaboodle uses the IP address from the Partnership file. If those
direct connection attempts fail, Kaboodle falls back to use
Gnutella (GnucleusProto.dll), doing a search for a filename that's
a hash of contents from the Partnership file.
With the work you're doing, it will instead look like
this: the end-user can either specify a direct connection to
a specific Internet address, or they can choose "Automatic
Search". A direct connection will do what you think it does: a
connection attempt is made to that address and none other. If
the user chooses "Automatic Search", Kaboodle will search for
the partner via all installed KaboodleProxies. If that search
fails, Kaboodle should then attempt direct connections to the
Internet addresses in the registry (so if I did a direct
connection to "scott.echogent.com" last time, that FQDN should
be recorded in the registry so an Automatic Search will find it
next time). Lastly, if there is no registry entry, Kaboodle uses
the IP address from the Partnership file. If that fails, the
Automatic search should fail. No more Gnutella.
Please let me know if that makes any sense!
cheers,
Scott
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Dipak Balghare wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
>
>
> VPN connectivity fails with latest kaboodle version at our end. Is it
> working at your end?
>
>
>
> We need the documentation for the new changes that have been added to
> the kaboodle after sept 2002. It would be better if we get the
> documentation.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Dipak Balghare
> Software Engineer.
> OAS Information Systems pvt. Ltd.
> #2, Symphany-C, Range Hills road,
> Pune 411020
> Tel: +91 20 5520311
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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