[Ewrt-devel] development status update

Fri May 7 13:00:44 PDT 2004

On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 12:51, A Brandon Psmythe wrote:
>     allow you to specify an image to pull and be used for the splash page

This would be killer.  There's two directions I could see this go:

1) to implement a caching mechanism for content.   Say one HTML page and
a few images? 

2) To forward to external content always, unless that content is
unavailable.  if so, then give a basic local page.
This could be done in one of three ways:
        a) just issue a 302 redirect to an external page
        b) suck it in a frame  (or CSS or something)
        c)  proxy it

Any opinions?   

-Irving

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> -b
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> Irving Popovetsky wrote:
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> > Okay, so we have quite a bit of exposure for this project now.  Here's
> > whats been going on in the last week:
> > 
> > *  Announced Ewrt at Personaltelco.  Many other news sites, discussion
> > forums and blogs quickly picked up the news.
> > *  Put up the slides from my Personaltelco presentation
> > *  got anonymous CVS working
> > *  Got GNU mailman working.  moved ewrt-devel and ewrt-cvs over to
> > Mailman
> > *  Put up the source tarball for Ewrt 0.2 beta1
> > 
> > We now have approximately 1000 visitors per day to the website,
> > according to awstats.  There have been about 150 downloads of the binary
> > and about 12 full CVS checkouts.  not bad!
> > 
> > There are a number of bugs we are currently investigating:
> > *  ssh is just a symlink to scp.  Dropbear's scp doesn't seem to support
> > ssh client functionality
> > *  Nocat seems to blow over the iptables rules for port forwarding. 
> > Don't know what else it breaks.  This needs further investigation
> > *  When nocat is first enabled in the web interface, the web interface
> > can go unresponsive.  rebooting the box fixes this.
> > *  Nocat makes you auth to get to the WRT54G web interface, it should
> > probably allow its own IP by default
> > *  Nocat does not clean up all of its TIME_WAIT sockets when it exits. 
> > You cannot restart the daemon until all of those sockets time out
> > *  Brandy believes that there is a way to wedge a Nocat thread with a
> > malformed request.  it never unwedges.  so if you wedge all 10 threads
> > then Nocat won't respond until its restarted
> > *  Remote syslogging doesn't always start reliably, especially if your
> > WAN interface gets its address from DHCP
> > *  As we just discovered, rc/firewall.c doesn't clamp the TCP MSS to the
> > PMTU of the WAN interface, even though the comment says it does.  This
> > was breaking a user who had PPPoE over ADSL
> > *  The name of this project kinda sucks.  we need a new name. 
> > suggestions?
> > *  the webpage for this project sucks too.  anyone care to contribute a
> > better design?
> > 
> > My goal is to have many of these fixed for Ewrt 0.2-rc1.   Anyone else
> > find anything wrong?
> > 
> > 
> > 
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