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

[Fred Stratton]

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.