[Cerowrt-devel] Fwd: Re: Request for the inclusion of 2 additional packages- curl and libcurl

[Fred Stratton <fredstratton@imap.cc>]

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Request for the inclusion of 2 additional packages- curl 
and libcurl
Date: 	Sun, 29 Jun 2014 20:12:43 +0100
From: 	Fred Stratton <fredstratton@xyz.am>
To: 	cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net



Slight reformatting

This also requires the use of version 17-1 version of 6in4, rather than
16-1 as included


On 29/06/14 20:08, Fred Stratton wrote:
> Keeping a Hurricane Electric tunnel up through a change of ipv4
> address has always been problematic with ceroWRT.
>
> After experimentation with openWRT Barrier Breaker, which itself does
> not perform adequately in this regard, I found that
>
>  /usr/bin/curl -s
> 'http://ipv4.tunnelbroker.net/ipv4_end.php?ip=AUTO&pass=(md5sum-of-password,or-plaintext-updatekey)&user_id=(user-id)&tid=(tunnel-id)'
> > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> works to update the endpoint from ceroWRT, either in a cron job, or in
> a script in rc.local, or both. I have yet to craft anything more
> sophisticated.
>
> wget as included produces errors, even if correct values are included
> for all tunnel variables.
>
> curl, and the required libcurl, work.
>
> The error HE returns is:
>
>> -ERROR: Missing parameter(s).
>> Usage:
>> http://ipv4.tunnelbroker.net/ipv4_end.php?ip=IPV4ADDR&pass=PASSKEY&user_id=USERID&tid=TUNNELID
>>  -or-:
>> https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@ipv4.tunnelbroker.net/ipv4_end.php?tid=TUNNELID
>> (auto-detect IP)
>> https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@ipv4.tunnelbroker.net/ipv4_end.php?tid=TUNNELID&ip=IPV4ADDR
>>
>>
>> IPV4ADDR: Your IPv4 endpoint.  Set to AUTO to determine your IP based
>> on the IP you requested this page from.  Previously passed as ipv4b.
>> PASSKEY : Your tunnel update key, or MD5 hash of your
>> tunnelbroker.net password if a tunnel specific key is not set. You
>> may be able to 'echo -n YOURPASSWORD | md5sum' to produce the MD5
>> hash of your password.
>> USERID  : The UserID shown on the main page of tunnelbroker.net when
>> you log in.
>> TUNNELID: The ID of the tunnel you're updating the endpoint on. This
>> can be found on the tunnel information page.  Previously referred to
>> as the Global Tunnel ID / tunnel_id.
>>
>> The following parameters are only usable when accessing this script
>> over https.
>> USERNAME: Your tunnelbroker.net username.
>> PASSWORD: Your tunnel update key, or tunnelbroker.net password if a
>> tunnel specific key is not set.
>>
>> The legacy parameter names will continue to work for the forseable
>> future.  Naming of them changed to be more in line with industry
>> convention and their roles.
>




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