Hey

This afternoon / tonight I've been experimenting with creating my own
message network. (Just for fun).

It's not finished yet, and it's very simple. There is no routing,
probably a ton of things could go wrong, but hey I'm learning still :)

So far I've got scanning and tossing working, just invent a way of
actually transmitting the packets from one system to another.

Need to do more testing, but if you're interested in having a look...
checkout maginet branch from a new clone of Magicka, I wouldn't recommend
using this branch on your main bbs...

Andrew



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On 05/22/18, apam pondered and said...

This afternoon / tonight I've been experimenting with creating my own message network. (Just for fun).

Cool... I will try and get my Pi updated to play with this also.

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On 05/22/18, apam pondered and said...

This afternoon / tonight I've been experimenting with creating my message network. (Just for fun).

Cool... I will try and get my Pi updated to play with this also.

Have fun. Today I am working on the transport method. It consists of a
server that runs at the hub and a polling client that runs at all the
nodes. Using SSL/TLS to encrypt everything.

My brain is already feeling a little cooked and it's only 9am. I sort of
wonder if it would be better to use FTP or something...

Andrew

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My brain is already feeling a little cooked and it's only 9am. I sort
of wonder if it would be better to use FTP or something...

LOL it just occured to me I can use binkd in the same way wwivnet uses
binkd.

Andrew

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My brain is already feeling a little cooked and it's only 9am. I sort of wonder if it would be better to use FTP or something...

LOL it just occured to me I can use binkd in the same way wwivnet uses binkd.

Yep!

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On 05/23/18, apam pondered and said...

My brain is already feeling a little cooked and it's only 9am
of wonder if it would be better to use FTP or something...

LOL it just occured to me I can use binkd in the same way wwivnet binkd.

Yep!

Haha, well I will save reinventing this particular wheel for later :) (In
other news I'm understanding wheels a little better ;P )

Pretty stoked actually, as I got messages flowing between 3 systems.

Andrew

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On 05/22/18, apam pondered and said...

This afternoon / tonight I've been experimenting with creating my message network. (Just for fun).

Cool... I will try and get my Pi updated to play with this also.

For what it's worth, I've now managed to make my scanner / tosser work
with mystic message bases (or any JAM base I think). It also now runs on Windows as well as Linux.

You have to setup the message base as "Local" in mystic (that's how I
tested it, but might work with other settings).

Andrew

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On 05/23/18, apam pondered and said...

For what it's worth, I've now managed to make my scanner / tosser work with mystic message bases (or any JAM base I think). It also now runs on Windows as well as Linux.

Well that certainly helps those of us who play in the window world :) Nice
job.

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This afternoon / tonight I've been experimenting with creating my own message network. (Just for fun).

Is that like an alternative for FTN technology?

Need to do more testing, but if you're interested in having a look... checkout maginet branch from a new clone of Magicka, I wouldn't
recommend using this branch on your main bbs...

So we need to git checkout version 11, or is this a different version
entirely?


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This afternoon / tonight I've been experimenting with creating my message network. (Just for fun).

Is that like an alternative for FTN technology?

Yes.

Need to do more testing, but if you're interested in having a loo checkout maginet branch from a new clone of Magicka, I wouldn't recommend using this branch on your main bbs...

So we need to git checkout version 11, or is this a different version entirely?

Previously it was an entirely different version, but it's now in 11.

It's still getting a lot of changes, so I wouldn't recommend using it yet
for anything other than messing around with.

Andrew

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