From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ey0-f171.google.com (mail-ey0-f171.google.com [209.85.215.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority" (verified OK)) by huchra.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D63932006AA for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:52:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by eaaa12 with SMTP id a12so10933eaa.16 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:52:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ikMRpQzF2N2n4dANke7dB6KvUD4dmgBCbGmjpRsYmn8=; b=oqoDDEmRLGlNxVLwo3bHwd5yXbUKLMeyoLXtPTF7ukjV4ZNIQDzyfNAspz+/hRea5r 7iaFLeFMbyFcdFQsshIYL+OIkaI2DGbsgjxUAXk31miw0RFxDdQ1G3PJqIbwrJ5hEKCd rpD4PWvUK7y7dpmfPxknlcJDkUX+6f9DRcJ1a8AxGKrNxlBHnJ+kspGhbQdJqoz5pz5e 28mTXOdUVFglw9RTkCBN+mD5IIHYTeoAFGHQFebA8QULrWFy4uoXjGfZkpEMbQJ3GlQD Sr4hiVr6NgkpXukgx/h4tu/NJEIWBpjDM+RDKIRCbTBqazrAc3wH+cjrMd2e9FceGjVi 56jA== Received: by 10.14.188.129 with SMTP id a1mr7356092een.183.1339548743470; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:52:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2001:5c0:1400:a::3f3? ([2001:5c0:1400:a::3f3]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y54sm1437414eef.10.2012.06.12.17.52.21 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:52:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FD7E443.7000304@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:52:19 +0100 From: Robert Bradley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] making cerowrt chattier X-BeenThere: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Development issues regarding the cerowrt test router project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:52:43 -0000 On 12/06/12 14:10, Dave Taht wrote: > 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. ejabberd is probably a bit extreme for this unless you want to add more services, but I think simple broadcasts could actually be done via the Bonjour variant of XMPP (http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0174.html). I've no idea if a command-line client exists for that, though, and my attempts to send a basic message using netcat and Empathy failed badly. Maybe I need to publish more services with Avahi? > > There is also the possibility of a lightweight email tool or the > winpopup utility for samba. > Winpopup might work, but is generally disabled on the Windows side these days (since SP2?) thanks to Messenger service spam. -- Robert Bradley