Hello Scott, point#1 --- I will add the check for valid IP address & network ID in the sniffer. point#4 --- Ok I will do it. point#7 --- I could replicate the problem partially. I will fix it. But I am getting mac address at my end on win98.
Regards, Varsha ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott C. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Igor Kotelevsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "mailbox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Kaboodle-devel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 11:08 AM Subject: Re: [Kaboodle-devel] Bog Report, 4 July > > Okay, yes, I meant Bug Report. :) > > Two more things to add: > > 6. Running debug more on WinNT I transfer a file from Win98. > I let the "allow" to time out the first time, and it never > seemed to recover. It also remained in the Status window > even after I pushed Cancel. Haven't been able to get it > to work yet. > > 7. I started Kaboodle on Win98 and it couldn't find my Mac > on 192.168.123.128, even after multiple Refreshes. I then > started up Kaboodle on my WinNT machine, and it added > Gnutella.GetEngaged.Net (66.123.20.59) to the "devices > discovered" list. It started doing an OS scan, did a VNC > scan, and even started pinging it every 10 seconds. > > -Scott > > On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Scott C. Best wrote: > > > Igor, VK: > > > > Okay, getting really close. Here's what I saw today: > > > > 1. My LAN uses a DHCP server. So when a new device joins the > > LAN it has no IP address yet. The sniffer is detecting that > > a new device has joined the LAN correctly, but it incorrectly > > puts an IP address of "0.0.0.0" into the GUI. VK: exactly > > what traffic pattern is the sniffer code sniffing for? > > My thinking is that it should sniff for patterns which look > > like: > > > > "00:01:02:03:04:05 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 60: > > arp who-has a.b.c.d tell 192.168.123.17" > > > > This is usually the first thing you'll see from a device > > after it joins a LAN and gets a DCHP lease. In the above, > > "a.b.c.d" might be the IP address of the LAN's gateway which > > our new machine, IP address 192.168.123.17 and MAC address > > 00:01:02:03:04:05 is trying to discover. Or, a.b.c.d is > > 192.168.123.17 and our device is asserting itself on the > > LAN, looking for conflicts (aka, "Gratuitous ARP"). Either > > of these two is a good sniff for the new device. > > > > 2. Regarding the 100 ports that VNC auto-detection checks, > > lets do it this way. When I start up Kaboodle and open the > > PropPanel for a device and click on the VNC tab, Kaboodle > > should check just 10 ports: 5900-5909. *Only* if I click > > on "Check Again" should it scan the whole 100 port range. > > Also, I noticed that "Stop Check" isn't accessible, as the > > cursor is always an hourglass during a scan. > > > > 3. If I startup a VNC server on a PC not running Kaboodle, I > > can go the the PropPanel for that device and connect. No > > problem. But the VNC Service icon is not listing the device > > as a server, and the VNC halo is not being put on the device > > correctly. > > > > 4. VK: lets remove auto-discovery of printers via the installed > > driver lookup completely. Just comment those sections out, > > and when we figure out a way to make it useful we will. So > > the only printers which appear in the GUI will be network > > printers that we discover like we discover anything else. > > > > 5. The VNC prop tabs still have the big "Debug buttons". Is > > there a way to make them appear *only* if we build the > > debug version, not the release version? > > > > > > I'll be on vacation through Tuesday. *Please* do what > > you can to run Kaboodle thru various usage scenarios and verify > > that all of the little things are working. Thanks! > > > > -Scott > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _______________________________________________ > > Kaboodle-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kaboodle-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Kaboodle-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kaboodle-devel
