Paul,

It won't be today, but if you point me at the code I can test the code 
against mine some time in the next week.

jerry

Paul Alfille wrote:
> You are all exactly on the mark! I got feedback from Bill Farmer (head
> of iButtonLink):
> 
> -------------------------------------------------
> If I had to guess, I bet you still don't have a proper telnet client in
> OWFS (you probably are just opening a socket to port 10001).  The FF FA
> 2C 6A 60 FF F0 characters is the telnet protocol in the XPORT trying to
> do Will/Wont negotiation with the Telnet Client (you) and OWFS is not
> responding appropriately.
> 
> Lantronix changed their Telnet server in the latest release of the Xport
> firmware. This is the reason the "extra" characters are different than
> the last time.  The negotiation still matches the RFC so if you had been
> a proper client, you would never have seen the change at the user level.
> 
> You still have the same options as the last time we talked about this.
> 
> 1. If you are going to use Telnet protocol (the default condition), you
> must
>   adhear to the Telnet RFC. (At a minimum, the Will/Won't negotiations
> must
>   be detected and stripped from the data stream before passing to the
>   user).
> 
> 2. Reconfigure the Xport to use socket communications (turn Telnet OFF)
> so that the Will/Won't queries are not seen by your user code.
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> I'm still loathe to make people change their Linkhub-E configuration,
> so I've coded to
> Jerry Scharf's protocol interpretation. It seems to work with the new client.
> Does anyone dare test on a non-upgraded Linkhub-E?
> 
> Using a "proper telnet client" sounds like added dependencies and
> libraries, unless
> anyone has a good suggestion of code?
> 
> Paul Alfille
> 
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Ziggy<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Seems to me the simplest solution would be to disable telnet mode on
>> the Linkhub-E. Not having one to work with, and with the various
>> models, firmware versions, and documentation versions out there it
>> makes it a little hard so say for sure. But in the doc that I have
>> been able to view there is a "Common Options"  configuration section
>> in the "Connection Settings" of the web GUI. If you change the "Telnet
>> Mode" to "Disable" it should remove the need to do any of this silly
>> IAC processing. On other units you could simply connect to a different
>> TCP port to get a raw sockets connection, but apparently not on this
>> little guy.
>>
>> Jerry is correct with regard to the other sequences that may be
>> encountered. However you may also  see the longer sequences (Will/Wont/
>> Do/Dont) at the beginning when the connection first comes up.  Likes
>> he says, you shouldn't see any later unless you somehow start option
>> negotiation again.
>>
>> Can anyone test to see if this option can be disabled on the Linkhub-
>> E's Xport and if it solves the problem?
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On Jul 3, 2009, at 10:32 PM, Paul Alfille wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you, this is helpful.
>>>
>>> You solution is the most general. It does require two reads for every
>>> transaction, since there seems to be escape codes somewhere in each
>>> sequence, but it's more robust your way.
>>>
>>> Paul Alfille
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Jerry
>>> Scharf<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Paul,
>>>>
>>>> I was being a bit dense with my last email.
>>>>
>>>> You should request the number of bytes you expect. When you scan it,
>>>> start looking for FF FA codes. If that shows up, see if the F0 is
>>>> in the
>>>> read buffer. If so, move the char pointer back to where the FF
>>>> point was
>>>> and ask for the rest of the string (expected - FF...F0 bytes.) If
>>>> the F0
>>>> isn't in the read buffer, start reading byte by byte into a separate
>>>> variable looking for F0. Once you find that, then do the move the
>>>> pointer and read the rest piece as above. Finally, don't forget to
>>>> scan
>>>> the rest of the strings for more FF FA blocks. It's most sloppy
>>>> when the
>>>> FF is the last character of the initial read buffer...
>>>>
>>>> You can also scan and remove the patterns FF F1 - FF F9 as these
>>>> are 2
>>>> byte commands that the transmitter can send at any time. It is also
>>>> possible that you could see FF FB xx - FF FE xx 3 byte codes, but
>>>> this
>>>> would be in response to FF FA codes that you would send, so that
>>>> seems
>>>> unlikely. Handling these would be just the same as the FF FA codes
>>>> above.
>>>>
>>>> It really is a blast from the past for me. There was a time when I
>>>> could
>>>> decode telnet streams and FTP command streams on a RT passive
>>>> monitor at
>>>> close to typing speed. Life has gotten so much more complex than
>>>> these
>>>> early protocols.
>>>>
>>>> jerry
>>
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