FidoNews · Vol 28, No 31 · 01 Aug 2011
The F I D O N E W S Volume 28, Number 31 01 Aug 2011
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Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
A SECOND LIFE FOR THE LINKSYS Part 1 .................... 2
3. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 8
FidoNet Software References .............................. 8
4. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 13
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 13
5. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 15
How to Submit an Article ................................. 15
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 17
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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Nothing brings people together more, than mutual hatred.
-- Henry Rollins
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GENERAL ARTICLES
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A SECOND LIFE FOR THE LINKSYS Part 1
By Michiel van der Vlist 2:280/5555
Some five years ago, I joined the family of FON and I obtained a
Linksys WRT54GL, flashed with FON software, for a bargain. It has been
humming quitly away for almost five years. In March I got a Fonera
SIMPL, so I replaced the Linksys.
As you may have noticed from previous articles, I am an IPv6 advocate.
I have been experimenting with IPv6 for some time now. I started out
with a tunnel from SixXs. The idea was to have the tunnel terminate on
the machine that was going to host my web server and my Fido System. A
machine that would run 24/7 anyway.
The tunnel works fine for providing IPv6 connectivity to that machine,
but my plan to have it function as an IPv6 router to provide IPv6
connectivity to other machine on the LAN failed. It turned out that an
AYIYA tunnel running on a Windows machine can not route a subnet.
So I choose another approach. Why not let the routing be done by some-
thing that was designed for it in the first place: a router? With the
help of some guys in a Dutch IPv6 forum, I found a version of OpenWRT
that supports IPv6 and that can run on the Linksys. The binary image
can be found here:
http://www.vlist.eu/downloads/openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs-r25759.bin
Before you flash your linksys with this image be advised that the
WRT54GL has only 4 MB flash ROM available and the IPv6 add-ons need
memory space. So some compromise had to be made. This version does not
have a web interface, it is command line only. For most of us, that
should not be a problem, us FidoNetters have been using the command
line for ages. Also be warned that there is no easy "go back to
factory defaults button". Frankly, I do not even know how to go back
to the original firmware. I haven't felt the need yet, it is working
fine, so why fix what ain't broken?
No web interface, so you need a telnet/ssh client to access the
router. Telnet to 192.168.1.1 and you will get a prompt. The first
thing you will have to do is to configure a password for user root. It
won't let you do much, other than to use the "passwd" command for
entering a password after first startup.
Once you have configured a password for root, the Telnet interface is
disabled and you can only access the router with ssh. So get yourself
an ssh client first. A suitable one for windows is putty. To be found
here: www.putty.org. Putty BTW, is IPv6 capable.
With ssh you can log in as user root and the password you supplied.
Write down the password! There is no easy recovery if you forget the
password.
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To my surprise I found that not only did I have a router, but I had a
complete Linux system at my hands. The idea of running a disk OS on a
stand-alone dedicated system - as I see a router - was completely new
to me and my first reaction when I saw the command line prompt was a
bit similar to what happened when I started up that PDP-8 some forty
five years years ago: Ok, it started up. Now what?
So I tried "dir" and "type". Eh.. sorry, this isn't CP/M, FLEX or
MS-DOS. It is linux and the commands are "ls" and "cat" from now on.
Ok...
Many of the standard Linux commands work. The entire configuration is
done by editing text files with a text editor. Weird idea for a stand
alone dedicated system, but I got used to it quickly.
The first thing of course was to get it configured properly for IPv4.
The machines on the LAN running servers needed a permanent address. So
we have to edit some files. We want the dhcp server to always issue
the same (semi-fixed) address to the machine named Fido. The package
comes with an editor called nano, so we enter the following command:
nano /etc/config/dhcp
And we add the following lines to the file:
[code]
config host
option ip '192.168.1.2'
option mac '00:04:76:8C:25:3C'
option name Fido
[/code]
Note that the address must be ouside the normal dhcp pool which
defaults to 100-150. Set the MAC address to the one on the NIC of the
system in question
Note that changes do not take effect until the router is rebooted.
Next step is the forwarding of port 80 and port 25445. This is done
by adding the following lines to the file /ect/config/firewall
[code]
# forward port 80 and port 24554 to Fido
config redirect http
option src wan
option dest lan
option src_dport 80
option dest_port 80
option dest_ip 192.168.1.2
option proto tcp
config redirect binkp
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option src wan
option dest lan
option src_dport 24554
option dest_port 24554
option dest_ip 192.168.1.2
option proto tcp
[/code]
If you want to use Wifi, it has to be enabled as it is disabled by
default. In the file /etc/config/wireless:
[code]
config 'wifi-device' 'radio0'
option 'type' 'mac80211'
option 'channel' '11'
option 'macaddr' '00:16:b6:da:3a:b5'
option 'hwmode' '11g'
option 'disabled' '1'
config 'wifi-iface'
option 'device' 'radio0'
option 'network' 'lan'
option 'mode' 'ap'
option 'ssid' 'OpenWrt'
option 'encryption' 'none'
[/code]
Change "option 'disabled' '1'" to "option 'disabled' '0'"
That will enable the radio, but it is highly recommended to enable
encryption as well.
Change "option 'encryption' 'none'" to "option 'encryption' 'psk2'" to
enable WPA2 encryption. 'wpa2' as option is for WPA2 with a radius
server.
Specify the key with:
[code]
option 'key' '<insert passfrase here>'
[/code]
You may want to change the channel number and the ssid. Also the para-
meter "11g" may be changed to "11bg" if you also want to support older
11b clients.
As always, changes do not take effect until the router is rebooted.
That takes care of my IPv4 settings.
Next step is to configure a 6in4 tunnel.
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If your ISP does not provide native IPv6 you will need to set up a
tunnel. Some ISP's offer tunnels, but if yours does not, you will need
a third party tunnel broker. Both SixXs and Hurricane Electric offer
free tunnels. So set up an account with either one of them (or both)
and apply for a tunnel. For this tunnel I choose Hurricane Electric,
because unlike SixXs, they do not let you jump through any hoops. Just
go to tunnelbroker.net, create an account, choose a site for the
tunnel ingress and apply for a tunnel. A Hurricane Electric tunnel
comes with a /64 subnet by default. But you can also get a /48. We do
not need that. Yet...
For a static he.net tunnel, you need a static or semi-static IPv4
address.
To configure the tunnel on the Linksys, add the following to
/etc/config/network
[code]
#### The he.net tunnel
config interface henet
option proto 6in4
option peeraddr 216.66.84.46
option ip6addr 2001:470:1f14:1117::2/64
option tunnelid XXXXXX
option username xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
option password xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[/code]
For "peeraddr" substitute the Server IPv4 address that the tunnel
broker has given you. For ip6addr substitute the client IPv6 address
that the the tunnel broker gave you. Note that this is te address of
you tunnel end point, not the subnet. Also do not ommit the /64, it
won't work without it. For tunnel ID substitie the decimal tunnel ID
number as supplied by the tunnel broker.
For Username substitute the 32 digit hex number that is found as "User
ID" on your account info page of tunnelbroker.net
The password should be a 32 digit hex number that is the MD5 hash of
your password for the tunnel broker. So how do we get that? The
Linksys will give it to you!
Type "echo -n '<your password>' | md5sum" at the command line and
there it is. Ain't that magic?
Rebot the router thave the changes take effect.
Now you should be able to ping6 ipv6 hosts from the router's command
line.
You can try to ping mine by typing:
[code]
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root@OpenWrt:/# ping6 wrt6.vlist.eu
PING wrt6.vlist.eu (2001:470:1f14:1117::2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2001:470:1f14:1117::2: seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.243 ms
64 bytes from 2001:470:1f14:1117::2: seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.358 ms
64 bytes from 2001:470:1f14:1117::2: seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.140 ms
64 bytes from 2001:470:1f14:1117::2: seq=3 ttl=64 time=1.142 ms
^C
[/code]
If you get this result your tunnel is working. To enable incoming
pings however you need to open the firewall for protocol 41. Protocol
41 is the protocol used for 6in4 tunneling. The firewall of openwrt is
closed for all unsollicited incoming packets by default. Bij pinging
out over IPv6, the firewall is opened for protocol 41, and it can be
pinged from outside, but it closes again after a minute or two. Add
the following lines to /etc/config/firewall to keep the tunnel open
permanently:
[code]
# Accept proto 41 so it always reaches the tunnel endpoint
config rule
option src wan
option proto 41
option target ACCEPT
[/code]
To check if your router is pingable from outside, you can use a
looking glass server. Here is one: http://leasewebnoc.com/lg/html.
As a last step you have to configure the firewall to also apply the
firewall rules to the IPv6 tunnel.
In the file /etc/config/firewall find this section:
[code]
config zone
option name wan
option input REJECT
option output ACCEPT
option forward REJECT
option masq 1
option mtu_fix 1
[/code]
And add this line after the second line:
[code]
# to have IPv6 firewall rules apply to the tunnel
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option network 'wan henet'
[/code]
This completes the setup of the tunnel on the linksys. Next week's
article will describe how to let the router issue global IPv6 adresses
from a subnet to your machines on the LAN.
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FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
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Type: M=Mailer T=Tosser B=BBS D=Door C=Comm/Terminal
P=Points E=Editor I=Internet U=Utility ?=Info
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|Software: Author |Type |URL, Contact, Ver, Notes Help Node|
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Argus |MI |http://www.ritlabs.com/argus/ 2:469/84
| | argus@ritlabs.com Tel: 373-2-246889
| | v3.210 on Mar 20th 2001
BinkleyTerm XE |M |http://btxe.sourceforge.net 1:1/102
| | v2.60XE/Gamma-6 on Nov 11th 1998
BinkD |MI |http://binkd.grumbler.org/ 2:463/69
| | v0.9.10 on Oct 2nd 2008
FIDO-Deluxe IP |MPUI |http://www.fido-deluxe.de.vu 2:2432/280
Michael Haase | | m.haase@gmx.net
| | v2.4 on Sep 26th 2003
FrontDoor, FD/APX: |MTPC |http://www.defsol.se 2:201/330
Definite Solutions | | sales@defsol.se 1:1/101
| | v2.26SW & v2.33ml FD, v1.15 APX
Husky Project |MTPUI|http://sf.net/projects/husky/
| | v1.4 RC5 on Apr 24th 2006
Radius |MI |http://radius.pp.ru 2:5012/38
(based on Argus) | | fido5012@zaural.net Tel: 7-3522-469463
| | Last Release: v4.010 on Jan 3nd 2005
Taurus |MI |http://taurus.rinet.ru (Russian) 2:461/70
| |http://www.fidotel.com/taurus (English)
(based on Radius) | | E-mail: taurus@rinet.ru
| | v5.000 alpha on Oct 11th 2004
Tmail |MI |http://www.tmail.spb.ru v2608
| | Website is in Russian only
WildCat! Interactive |MTBEI|http://www.santronics.com
Net Server, Platinum| | sales@santronics.com
Xpress: Santronics | | Tel: (305) 248-3204
Software, Inc. | | AUP 451.1 on April 26th 2004
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Fidogate |TUI |http://www.fidogate.org
| | Martin_Junius@m-j-s.net v4.4.10
FMail |T |http://fmail.nl.eu.org
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| | support@fmail.nl.eu.org v1.60
JetMail: JetSys |TU |http://www.jetsys.de js@jetsys.de
(ATARI ST only) | | v1.01 on Jan 1st 2000
Squish |T |http://maximus.sourceforge.net/
| | Lanuis site redirects to above
| | Squish is part of Maximus.
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BBBS |BI |http://www.bbbs.net b@bbbs.net
| | v4.00MP on Oct 25th 1999 2:22/222
ELEBBS: The Elevator |B |http://www.elebbs.com
Software Production | | elebbs@elebbs.com
| | v0.10.RC1 on Jun 9th 2002
Ezycom BBS |BT |http://www.ezycom-bbs.com
| | ezycom@amnet.net.au or
| | ezycom_hq@ezycom-bbs.com 3:690/682
| | v2.15g2 on 16 Nov 2009
Hermes II Project |B |http://www.hermesii.org
| | info@HermesII.org v3.5.9 Beta Final
Maximus BBS |B |http://maximus.sourceforge.net/
| | v3.03
| |Archives back online at:
| |http://maximus.outpostbbs.net/
MBSE BBS: |BI |http://mbse.sourceforge.net 2:280/2802
Michiel Broek | | mbroek@users.sourceforge.net
| | v0.60.0 on June 5th 2004
Mystic BBS |B |http://www.mysticbbs.com
| | v1.07.3 on May 13th 2001
Nexus BBS |B |http://www.nexusbbs.net
| | groberts@nexusbbs.net
| | v0.99.41-Beta on Oct 16th 2002
| | [Note: No Longer under active
| | development.]
Proboard BBS |B |http://www.proboard.be
| | v2.17 on Jun 9th 2002
RemoteAccess BBS: |B |http://www.rapro.com 1:1/120
Bruce Morse | | bfmorse@rapro.com
| | v2.62.2SW
Spitfire BBS: Buffalo|B |http://www.angelfire.com/ia/buffalo/
Creek Software | | MDWoltz@aol.com 1:1/150
| | v3.6 on Aug 20th 1999
Synchronet BBS |BT |http://www.synchro.net
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| | sysop(at)vert(dot)synchro(dot)net
| | v3.10L Beta
Telegard BBS |B |http://www.telegard.net
| | support@telegard.net
| | v3.09g2 SP4
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Atlantis Software |D |http://www.jimmyrose.com/atlantis/
| | Last Update: August 2004
Cheepware |DU |http://outpostbbs.net
Sean Dennis | | sean@outpostbbs.net 1:18/200
DDS (Doorware |D |http://www.doorgames.org 1:2404/201
Distribution System)| | ruth@doorgames.org
Ruth Argust | |
DoorMUD |D |http://doormud.com
| | v0.98 Jun 1st 2002
| | Website is down after
| | past the splash page.
Jibben Software |D |http://www.jibbensoftware.com
| | scott@jibben.com
| | 1995-99 Release dates
John Dailey Software |D |http://www.johndaileysoftware.com
| | support@johndaileysoftware.com
Shining Star |D |http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/
| | nannette@shiningstar.net
Sunrise Doors: |D |http://www.sunrisedoors.com
Al Lawrence | | al@sunrisedoors.com
| | Tel: (404) 256-9518
The Brainex System |D |http://www.brainex.com/brainex_system/
| | stanley@brainex.com 1994-99 Releases
Trade Wars |D |http://www.eisonline.com/tradewars/
| | jpritch@eisonline.com
| | v3.09 (DOS-32) in 2002
Vagabond Software: |D |http://www.vbsoft.org 1:124/7013
Bryan Turner | | vagabond@vbsoft.org
| | last update: Jul 17th 2002
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APoint |PI |http://www.apoint-mail.de 2:2426/1210.13
| |http://www.apoint-mail.de/indexe.htm
| | (English Version)
| | dirk.pokorny@apoint-mail.de
| | v1.25
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CrossPoint (XP) |P |http://www.crosspoint.de (German Only)
| | pm@crosspoint.de v3.12d Dec 22nd 1999
FreeXP |P |http://www.freexp.de 2:2433/460
| | support@freexp.de
| | v3.40 RC3 Aug 31st 2003 (Snapshot)
OpenXP/32 |PI |http://www.openxp.com 2:248/2004
| | (Site is in German Only)
| | mk@openxp.de v3.8.15 Beta Feb 10th 2004
| | Download Page comes back 404 not found.
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GoldEd+ |E |http://golded-plus.sourceforge.net/
| | 2:5080/102
| | stas_degteff@users.sourceforge.net
| | v1.1.5 Snapshot on Feb 28th 2003
SqEd32 |E |http://www.sqed.de
| | v1.15 on Dec 15th 1999
TimEd |E |http://blizzard.dnsalias.org/fidonet
| | mail@ozzmosis.com /timed
| | v1.11.a5 in March 2003 3:633/267
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FidoIP |MTPEIU|http://sourceforge.net/projects/fidoip
| | Maxim Sokolsky 2:5020/828.777
| | v.0.5_1 on Jan 11 2010
GiGo |UI |http://www.gigo.com
| | v0109 on Jan 9th 1997
Ifmail |UI |http://ifmail.sourceforge.net
| | crosser@average.org 2:5020/230
| | Ifmail is a FTN <-> E-Mail/News Gateway
| | Program.
Internet Rex: |UI |http://members.shaw.ca/InternetRex/
Charles Cruden | | telnet://xanadubbs.ca 1:342/806
(Khan Software) | | v2.29 on Oct 21st 2001
MakeNL |U | http://hub2000.darktech.org/makenl
| | fidonet.hub2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
| | Fido: 1:229/2000
| | FidoNet Nodelist Processor
Meltdown-BBS |UI |http://meltdown-bbs.sourceforge.net/
| | meltdown-bbs.project.petkan
| | @spamgourmet.com
| | Fido: 2:350/5
| | Meltdown-BBS is an FTN <->
| | Web/PHP/MySQL BBS forum system.
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RNtrack |U |http://sourceforge.net/projects/ftrack-as
| |2:5080/102
| |stas_degteff@users.sourceforge.net
| | v1.1.4 Snapshot on Oct 09 2009
TransNet |UI |http://www.ressl.com.ar/transnet/
| | transnet@ressl.com.ar
| | v2.11 on Jul 18th 1998
TransX: Multiboard |UI |http://www.start.ca/software/multiboard
Communications, Inc.| | Unsure about support now but Free Keys
| | are now available. Donations accepted.
| | v3.5 (Note: KeyGen is a Windows Program)
Turquoise SuperStat |U |http://www.softwolves.pp.se/sw/
| | software/turquoise
| | peter@softwolves.pp.se
| | Version: 3.0 on 2008-01-21
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National BBS List |? | http://www.usbbs.org
Hispanic FIDO/BBS's |? | http://www.conecta2.org/pucela_bbs/
(in Spanish only) | | (Extensive software & BBS Listings)
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File Archives:
http://archives.thebbs.org http://www.filegate.net
http://sysopscorner.thebbs.org http://www.juge.com
http://www.dmine.com/bbscorner/ http://garbo.uwasa.fi
http://www.simtel.net http://wuarchive.wustl.edu
http://www.bbsfiles.com http://hobbes.nmsu.edu
Note: most also provide FTP access
(use ftp:// instead of http:// above)
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Please send corrections & additions to: Fidonews Editor
Emeritus: Robert Couture, Ben Ritchey, Todd Cochrane,
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SPECIAL INTEREST
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Nodelist Stats
Input nodelist nodelist.210
size 374.6kb
date 2011-07-29
The nodelist has 2740 nodes in it
and a total of 3922 non-comment entries
including 5 zones
37 regions
250 hosts
225 hubs
admin overhead 517 ( 18.87 %)
and 346 private nodes
171 nodes down
148 nodes on hold
off line overhead 665 ( 24.27 %)
Speed summary:
>9600 = 241 ( 8.80 %)
9600 = 1755 ( 64.05 %)
(HST = 25 or 1.42 %)
(CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(PEP = 1 or 0.06 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 1 or 0.06 %)
(V32 = 850 or 48.43 %)
(V32B = 65 or 3.70 %)
(V34 = 1206 or 68.72 %)
(V42 = 1009 or 57.49 %)
(V42B = 70 or 3.99 %)
2400 = 16 ( 0.58 %)
1200 = 2 ( 0.07 %)
300 = 726 ( 26.50 %)
ISDN = 233 ( 8.50 %)
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File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems
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XA Frontdoor <1.99b 826
Frontdoor 2.02+
Dutchie 2.90c
Binkleyterm >2.1
D'Bridge <1.3
TIMS
Xenia
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XB Binkleyterm 2.0 2
Dutchie 2.90b
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XC Opus 1.1 1
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XP Seadog 0
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XR Opus 1.03 15
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XW Fido >12M 77
Tabby
KittenMail
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XX D'Bridge 1.30 864
Frontdoor 1.99b
Intermail 2.01
T-Mail
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None QMM 955
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CrashMail capable = 1361 ( 49.67 %)
MailOnly nodes = 1390 ( 50.73 %)
Listed-only nodes = 215 ( 7.85 %)
Other = -226 ( -8.25 %)
[Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm]
[ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208]
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