From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-we0-f171.google.com (mail-we0-f171.google.com [74.125.82.171]) (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 E5E76208A70 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 06:10:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wejx9 with SMTP id x9so5840239wej.16 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 06:10:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=HuImuJ+ZswtMjjky5UUWlTRo/PqAfeyMuQStWT5whDg=; b=jVwW5WOgZBLRCH3BZqof5E3cx1dGF93RJVBiNXaVMmnBLEqsC40TdiOtEDgJUKE0em /Tl7HeCeTHi6owmwT3gw6ss3+dj85SR3/wZ7rFYC2O1L4cwIjxs/DZFdD2mGtBABY2dN ESp+Dj1zYCFjVZOpZov35glCDdrv1bQ0QvDPdTOxJHdEa+eaqfTVGjQGUOBqmtIpFiCZ fE3TNESiat7fDFsT9ifvLKCm6G+1st9gKkQg3+QjFNKUhf3iV1hAOHgSrX/DQZadt1Aa efgey/Y7nYi5lXG/U+Xysb1+hZKAgYKcunDB8hhcOF3kEMPm7lBTg3QIch0NOYMGvtMv KeVw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.202.22 with SMTP id c22mr8375147weo.10.1339506640776; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 06:10:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.103.199 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 06:10:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:10:40 -0400 Message-ID: From: Dave Taht To: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [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: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:11:04 -0000 I am fiddling with ideas towards making the router chattier. One reason is that some countries, and locations (hotspots) tend to require that a person agree to the terms of service before using the service. I happen to dislike intensely how this is usually implemented (requiring a signin via web browser and having something like a chilispot intercept DNS and all access) - I'd prefer some automated system and to allow basic services (like telephone, etc), automagically just work, and only intercept browser access if required. The second reason is that periodically a router needs an update, for example to address a CVE. I note that versions of cerowrt prior to 3.3.8-1 have a version of bind in them that had a CVE issued against it that needs to be addressed. A third reason would be to enable various sorts of other messages to make it to the user faster/more often. 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. There is also the possibility of a lightweight email tool or the winpopup utility for samba. --=20 Dave T=E4ht SKYPE: davetaht http://ronsravings.blogspot.com/