I am fiddling with ideas towards making the router chattier. One reason is that some countries, and locations (hotspots) tend to require that a person agree to the terms of service before using the service. I happen to dislike intensely how this is usually implemented (requiring a signin via web browser and having something like a chilispot intercept DNS and all access) - I'd prefer some automated system and to allow basic services (like telephone, etc), automagically just work, and only intercept browser access if required.
The second reason is that periodically a router needs an update, for example to address a CVE. I note that versions of cerowrt prior to 3.3.8-1 have a version of bind in them that had a CVE issued against it that needs to be addressed. A third reason would be to enable various sorts of other messages to make it to the user faster/more often. Now, I've implemented a tiny jabber server in my current builds and am looking into javascript based chat servers that I could incorporate into the introductory web page, which could be used for notices of this sort, and jabber users could also merely subscribe to notices from the router so that they get chat notices when something is going wrong - "upgrade needed", "we are under a syn attack", "Earthquake", "out of memory", etc. I haven't found a lightweight version of sendxmpp yet, and have never been fond of centralized chat services in the first place (the venerable "talk" protocol has no ipv6 implementation, I note) , so perhaps there's a better standard or system I can use that is more aggressively p2p/distributed? I have seen chat demonstrated over ccnx, but don't know anything about the implementation. ejabberd is NOT lightweight but supports muc and other services. There is also the possibility of a lightweight email tool or the winpopup utility for samba. -- Dave Täht SKYPE: davetaht http://ronsravings.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
