Wolfgang:
Heya. Let me dive right into your questions:
> a) seems to be when there is a wireless bridge in the network, kaboodle
> does not correctly identify the attached devices. Kaboodle shows a
> device with the IP adress of the wireless bridge (netgear) and the mac
> adress of the attached device. does not see port 80 on attached device.
> when attached device is connected directly to network with bridge it is
> detected correctly (this is the case with a Dlink camera, also a RIO
> receiver, and also a Lindows PC). Did not check what happens when there
> are more then one device is connected behind bridge. I have 3 wireless
> bridges in network (2x netgear, 1x Dlink, all act the same)
In the current version, Kaboodle uses a MAC address as a unique
identifier for a device. So if the wireless bridge is "proxy ARP'ing" for
the devices behind it, it will get confused. I would guess that it will
display only one device with that MAC address: the one with the
numerically lowest IP address in the subnet.
Given the lack of any other "permanent" identifier for a discovered
device (besides the MAC address), I'm not sure yet what a good solution
is. I'm investigating some methods of trying to detect what MAC addresses
a bridge acts as a proxy for.
> b) also Kaboodle detects a device with IP 127.0.0.1 (how is this
> possible?) with a mac adress not existing on the network. This device is
> only detected when a PC with ME is on the network, this PC has a second
> network card, not installed, not connected to any network installed (mac
> not known).....i assume it sees this network card...no explanation for
> whatever reason (i can not check the mac adress at the moment of this
> not used network card to check if this is really the case)
Do you see this error when Kaboodle is run on the WinME PC with
the two network cards? Or do you see this error when Kaboodle is running
on one of the other PC's, when the WinME PC is attached to the network?
The loopback address error might be an artifact of (a) above, when
Kaboodle thinks it has two devices with the same "unique" identifier.
> c) this brings up the point that it would be nice to have the
> possibility to suppress the display of a device, like this or when a
> laptop is only visiting once your network and then can not be removed
> anymore.
I call this a "Hidden List" functionality, to tell Kaboodle not
to display a group of devices. It should be in the 1.0 release.
> Also to "join" two or more devices, for example the same laptop one
> time connected wireless and the next time wired, show up as separate
> devices.
That's a good point.
> d) Kaboodle works on w2k and ME with pcap (my main kaboodle runs on
> w2k), when installed on XP it seems only working when pcap is NOT
> installed. After I installed pcap, kaboodle only comes up, identifies
> the network and devices and then crashes and closes. (have not tried
> yet to uninstall pcap, if this solves the problem)
Yikes. Which version of WinPcap?
> e) i would like to connect from a external PC (external to my home
> kaboodle network) to my kaboodle network. As this PC is on a large
> network or directly on the internet, it would be great to switch of the
> detection function of kaboodle as long it is not connected via zebedee
> to my home kaboodle network via the VPN. Any way to do this ?
Not yet, no. Right now, by default, Kaboodle can be used to
connect one entire network to another entire network, only. In future
releases, I plan to support "sub-LANs", so that when Kaboodle makes a
remote connection, only some of the devices on either side are exposed
to the other side. I think that's what you're looking for.
Please let me know when you can about the (b) and (d)
clarifications. Thanks!
-Scott
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