[ilugd] Hotwire Client for Linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I remember a thread on hotwire client for linux that started in july. I browsed thru it again today and it didn't seem to have any concrete solution on the matter. Did any of you guys do anything? I have been myself using hotwire internet for the last 5 months on linux (redhat 8 on WINE). There seems to be no problem with wine running the MFC app (shittiest VC++ app I have ever seen!) on linux. I don't know how many of you have tried this solution. Now, why I am starting the thread again is because I wasn't pleased with the way the authentication client was working (seems to get disconnected often) and storing username , passwd, DNS etc. was a big hassle. So I wrote a socket application which does the same thing as the client. The code is in plain C and it is only command-line (will modify to include a config file to store persistent data). I have reduced the keep-alive packet timeout with the server and it seems the application is running better than the shitty windows client! Right now I am running the app and the results are very satisfactory (been up for an hour with no disconnection and avg speed of 10kbps). Now what I want to know is that how many hotwire internet users are there in this group who would be interested in this application. I started a few hours back and its already running by now. If anyone is interested, please mail me and let me know ASAP. I will develop it further, maybe adorn it with a GUI. If anyone is interested in developing, you are welcome. Also I want to know from the experienced developers in the list that what I should use to code the GUI for the app so that all distros can use it. Any comments?? Regards, Bhaskar. - -- - --- Bhaskar Dutta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = AA56 1EB5 D7E8 DD9C 298E 8F4D 375F D416 01D5 671C - --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ebo5N1/UFgHVZxwRAoAOAJ9jzJ/s7rTW4IxOdU3nYdIyyjXQYQCfWO8Z cfuDe1cvopa3/OSnIe4GwMU= =C20w -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Hotwire Client for Linux
Hey, I sure would be interested. Got on Hotwire two days ago, and have been trying to figure out the protocol (if any) using a packet sniffer. But you seem to have done it already. Some details would be appreciated. Arunjeet Singh Bhaskar Dutta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I remember a thread on hotwire client for linux that started in july. I browsed thru it again today and it didn't seem to have any concrete solution on the matter. Did any of you guys do anything? I have been myself using hotwire internet for the last 5 months on linux (redhat 8 on WINE). There seems to be no problem with wine running the MFC app (shittiest VC++ app I have ever seen!) on linux. I don't know how many of you have tried this solution. Now, why I am starting the thread again is because I wasn't pleased with the way the authentication client was working (seems to get disconnected often) and storing username , passwd, DNS etc. was a big hassle. So I wrote a socket application which does the same thing as the client. The code is in plain C and it is only command-line (will modify to include a config file to store persistent data). I have reduced the keep-alive packet timeout with the server and it seems the application is running better than the shitty windows client! Right now I am running the app and the results are very satisfactory (been up for an hour with no disconnection and avg speed of 10kbps). Now what I want to know is that how many hotwire internet users are there in this group who would be interested in this application. I started a few hours back and its already running by now. If anyone is interested, please mail me and let me know ASAP. I will develop it further, maybe adorn it with a GUI. If anyone is interested in developing, you are welcome. Also I want to know from the experienced developers in the list that what I should use to code the GUI for the app so that all distros can use it. Any comments?? Regards, Bhaskar. - -- - --- Bhaskar Dutta Key fingerprint = AA56 1EB5 D7E8 DD9C 298E 8F4D 375F D416 01D5 671C - --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ebo5N1/UFgHVZxwRAoAOAJ9jzJ/s7rTW4IxOdU3nYdIyyjXQYQCfWO8Z cfuDe1cvopa3/OSnIe4GwMU= =C20w -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd - Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] hotwire client for linux
I tried to analyze the protocol, but didn't have a tool that would show me the data stream with a timeline :( I was working with a tool that dumped packets, and i was reassembling the data manually after extracting the header. From what I got, the client was opening a tcp connection, and then sending a login request. The userid and password, if i remember correctly were sent as plaintext in the tcp packets. After this the client would send keepalive requests thru tcp. The would be like a byte sent and one byte received. The problem is that if the keepalive doesn't work once or a few times, the client crashes. If there are some problems with the network or a lot of network load, the client crashes. The client also seems to crash randomly and has a useless gui. The original gui didn't have the tab order correct (which i fixed with a resource editor) and doesn't save my username. But it saves the other options in the screen and mostly works for me. Hotwire also accepts requests for disabling requirement of authentication, but this is not permanent and gets reset quite often. Ambar Roy - Original Message - From: supreet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [ilugd] hotwire client for linux Have you got any details one type of client and protocol. I could work on it. Supreet On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 01:43, Ambar Roy wrote: Hotwire AFAIK uses same cyberoam server but on a different port. Cyberroam seems to use UDP for connections, but hotwire client uses a TCP connection to the server. At least my hotwire connection uses a TCP link and no UDP. so linc linc.sf.net should work. But I have not tested it Haven't tried out linc yet! Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] hotwire client for linux
Have you got any details one type of client and protocol. I could work on it. Supreet On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 01:43, Ambar Roy wrote: Hotwire AFAIK uses same cyberoam server but on a different port. Cyberroam seems to use UDP for connections, but hotwire client uses a TCP connection to the server. At least my hotwire connection uses a TCP link and no UDP. so linc linc.sf.net should work. But I have not tested it Haven't tried out linc yet! Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] hotwire client for linux
Does anyone use a hotwire connexion? and if so do you have a linux version of their authentication client. Plus! is there a strace like thingy for windows (Just in case i have to reverse engg). Its been years since I last used softice and I wasnt really a pro even then. Something else that would let me see file I/O and network I/O seperatly would be welcome. -- all the things we keep inside, are the things that really matter, the face puts on its best disguise, and all is well, until the heart betrays. Key fingerprint = 7A60 AE0C C773 2CD2 74E3 29F4 EEFD CD6D 94C5 25E2 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] hotwire client for linux
Hotwire AFAIK uses same cyberoam server but on a different port. so linc linc.sf.net should work. But I have not tested it Supreet On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 23:31, Spoonman wrote: Does anyone use a hotwire connexion? and if so do you have a linux version of their authentication client. Plus! is there a strace like thingy for windows (Just in case i have to reverse engg). Its been years since I last used softice and I wasnt really a pro even then. Something else that would let me see file I/O and network I/O seperatly would be welcome. -- all the things we keep inside, are the things that really matter, the face puts on its best disguise, and all is well, until the heart betrays. Key fingerprint = 7A60 AE0C C773 2CD2 74E3 29F4 EEFD CD6D 94C5 25E2 ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] hotwire client for linux
Hotwire AFAIK uses same cyberoam server but on a different port. Cyberroam seems to use UDP for connections, but hotwire client uses a TCP connection to the server. At least my hotwire connection uses a TCP link and no UDP. so linc linc.sf.net should work. But I have not tested it Haven't tried out linc yet! Ambar Roy ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
