Running Giftd on wl500g

[Styno]

Cool!
There is only one thing I need: eMule/eDonky/KAD-Network-Support AND import eMule-Files.

By the way: incomming files are saved in public_ftp NOT in public_ftp/incomming!!!!

The temporary files are store in ftp_pub/incoming and the completed files are stored in ftp_pub (or was it ftp_pub/completed ). If you don't like this behaviour you can change this by editing your .gift/giftd.conf file.

[Styno]

I've got the same problem my self. The only sollution i can find on the net is to update the gwebcaches file, but i haven't found a new one yet

I found a recent one in the CVS: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gift

Updating the gwebcaches file doesn't solve the problem of not connecting to the gnutella network for me though. This is what the giFT plugin writes to the logfile:

[17:31:42] Gnutella: No hosts to try. Looking in gwebcaches...
[17:31:42] Gnutella: Retrying to connect to nodes...
[17:31:52] Gnutella: try_some_nodes() returned 0. node list len=0

Does anyone have an idea about what's causing this. Google has found nothing for me yet. I don't have a firewall running so that should not be the problem here...

[DeF]

Does anyone have an idea about what's causing this. Google has found nothing for me yet. I don't have a firewall running so that should not be the problem here...

If hacked a little bit around in the source code and found that the gnutella plugin doesn't properly resolve hostname's of gwebcache's. It's one of those mystyrious C problem's couse gethostbyname return's NULL but the h_errno is also set to 0. I'll try to fix it when i'm back from vacation.

A simple sollution is to just convert all domain name's in the gwebcaches file to ip adress's. After this gnutella should find some node's. but I haven't been able to test if giFT really connect's to these node's(I see an afull lot of DISCONNECTED message's in my log )

[DeF]

What are you config for wl500g ? I try update to Firmware v.1.7.5.9 CR3 [Oleg] abd have the same problem. Actually I've configure ftp, my isp, wifi connection , telnet and ssh connection and that all. No configuration of samba and firewall.

I use giFToxic and giftwin32 as clients. on my router i have Firmware v.1.7.5.9 CR3 [Oleg] the only noteable thing in my config is that i disabled upnp. Appart from that i didn't change very much in the factory default's.

[Styno]

A new gwebcaches file is in CVS now. Also, there is a new Perl script for generating an up-to-date gwebcaches file.

These can be found here

[GJAman]

I just converted all domain name's in the gwebcaches file (from http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.p...Gnutella/data/) to ip adress's, see attachment.

1. Download "gwebcaches.txt"
2. Rename "gwebcaches.txt" to '"gwebcaches"
3. Save it in the directory "/mnt/usbfs/.giFT/Gnutella"
4. Run Giftd and see how it connects to the Gnutella network

Have fun!

[Styno]

I tried several gwebcaches:
- The original by DeF
- The updated and converted to IP addresses by GJAman
- The latest from http://gcachescan.jonatkins.com

and nothing helps me connecting to Gnutella.

I'm not using the firewall normally, but when I enabled it, it didn't work too.

[Styno]

OpenFT 0.2.1.4 has been released! Not much is new, mostly just
bugfixes. However, this release is noteworthy in being the first not
to have been made by jasta; we'll see how it goes...

From the ChangeLog:

* Fixed a signedness bug that could cause problems with non-ASCII
characters on some platforms.

* Fixed a packet handling bug that could cause an infinite loop.

* Minor networking tweaks.

* Fixed clipping of the nodes cache.

Get it from the usual place:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ease_id=257474

Enjoy,

Tom.

Hopefully, the threadstarter can compile us a new binary

[Styno]

People who are willing to share us their knowledge are invited to drop a few lines in the giFT Wiki page @ http://wiki.wl500g.info/index.php/PackageGift

[WlanMan]

Hi

It´s Just imazing that this realy works, my dreams come true .
But what´s about the memory usage ?

For the Edonkey Network, what is about Cdonkey ??
Im not sure about the Projekt state and its compatibility to the currend clients, but it compiles to a 1,2MB binary so use on the 500g seems possible ...

Btw, my Router is now ordered, i can hardly wait

[Styno]

CDonkey is a eMule core network project. It was not designed for use as a pluging for giFT. But nobody is stopping you from writing a giFT plugin wrapper for CDonkey.

Please let us know when you have it working

[Styno]

While giFT, in theory, is great for use on the WL-500g, there are some issues with it which make it inferior to a WIN32 desktop counterpart.

Consider the following situation:
I want to download a certain video file (non-copyrighted ofcourse ). I do a search and on the KaZaA netwerk and some ppl are sharing it so I start the download. After that I shutdown my desktop and check again a few days later, expecting to find a downloaded file on the USB HD. But, to my ashtonishing, giFT hasn't downloaded a single byte . So I give giFT the command to search for additional sources and the application starts downloading the file. 'Whohoo that's great' I thought and I shutdown my client again. After a few day's I check how far the download is progressing: and again (you can guess what happenend) only a few hundred kilobytes have been dowloaded. This is weird because when I give the command to find additional sources, it starts downloading from several sources with speeds approaching my ADSL bandwith. This time I started watching its behaviour and notice that after a few minutes everything is quiet again and I need to give the 'find additional sources' command again.

This behaviour is totally unwanted for a standalone application. As the name allready says: the application should do its work 'stand alone', I shouldn't have to be on the controlls all the time

KaZaA however works much better in this respect, it does its own 'find additional sources' once in a while and completes downloads much, much faster then giFT. So the conclusion: It's not all sunshine using giFT...

[Styno]

I found some news on the Gnutella connection problem:

From the giFT mailing list:

By the way, gnutella 0.0.9.2 has been failing to connect for most
people. You probably want to use the 0.0.10-rc1 pre-release, which
is not on the sourceforge site, but which can be found here:

http://tinyurl.com/2mtus

[HEx]

While giFT, in theory, is great for use on the WL-500g, there are some issues with it which make it inferior to a WIN32 desktop counterpart.

(valid complaint snipped)

There's a tiny program called giFTwakeup in the giFTcurs distribution which does nothing other than initiate source searches for stalled downloads every few minutes.

Get the source from http://www.nongnu.org/giftcurs/, configure, then do "cd src; make giFTwakeup".

Hope that helps.

[WlanMan]

Sounds like a realy Dirty Hack
Sadly cdonkey and Gitf seem to have low development at the moment ...