[HECnet] Windows Version of Bridge

[hvlems at zonnet.nl]

It's on MIM:: in the guest directory as bridge.chv. 
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From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:38:03 
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Send a diff to me instead. I probably have some stuff that I've worked 
on in the code which haven't been distributed. And it's also in general 
a bad idea to have the code distributed from different places with 
different versions.

I'll put a new version up as soon as I've merged stuff, which will 
probably be tomorrow, if you can get me the diff today. And after that, 
it would be nice to have people test it at their systems.

	Johnny

On 2011-11-20 20:32, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote:
OK, after installing libpcap-develop the program compiled *and* seems to
work.
I'll add a Hecnet paragraph to my website to make the source available.
That is if Johnny agrees with that of course. It is his program not mine.
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I didn   t, but suppose I should. I think that if I tidy up the code, then
a simple diff will make the changes clear. Most of the work was to get
PCAP and sockets to use the same mechanism to tell the code that there
was some data to be processed.

Regards

Rob

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Did you document the changes? I want to try and port it to VMS.

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*Subject: *[HECnet] Windows Version of Bridge

I just wanted to let you know that I have ported the bridge code to
Windows. It seems to work well for me. If anyone is interested in a
copy, let me know.

I think that it needs just a little bit more work to do the following:

1. Tidy up some bits that I almost certainly left behind while trying to
get it to work.

2. Turn it into a Windows Service so that it starts automatically when
Windows starts.

Another feature which would be nice to add generally is something which
periodically re-resolves the DNS names in the config file to IP
addresses, so that people who use something like DynDNS because they
don   t have a fixed IP address, can use it more easily and not fall off
the network for too long when their IP address changes. Presumably
calling the SIGHUP handler (read_conf) every so often would do the trick.

It would also be nice to make the code a bit more portable so that it
will compile and run on more platforms without modification, a bit like
SIMH.

Regards

Rob



-- 
Johnny Billquist                                   || "I'm on a bus
                                                                    ||   on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se                         ||   Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                                         ||   tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol