Anyone have any experience setting up radius to poll the Eastern Star Hub 1:123/500 ??

I'm trying to get my Fido going with Radius and Synchronet but can't get radius to connect to my
hub. I have Dbridge working fine but would like to use radius since its a true Windows 32
application.

Thanks.
Kent Stanford
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Re: Radius and Eastern Star Hub
By: IronMan to All on Mon Sep 12 2016 04:31 pm

Anyone have any experience setting up radius to poll the Eastern Star Hub 1:123/500 ??

Not radius no.

I'm trying to get my Fido going with Radius and Synchronet but can't get radius to connect to my hub. I have Dbridge working fine but would like to use radius since its a true Windows 32 application.

I have been using binkit with good success with other nodes running binkd like 1:123/500. It's a javascript that ships with synchronet and once setup is up and running whenever your BBS is up and running.

... Enter any 12 digit prime number to continue

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Re: Radius and Eastern Star Hub
By: IronMan to All on Mon Sep 12 2016 04:31 pm

Anyone have any experience setting up radius to poll the Eastern Star Hub 1:123/500 ??

Not radius no.

I'm trying to get my Fido going with Radius and Synchronet but can't get radius to connect to my hub. I have Dbridge working fine but would like to use radius since its a true Windows 32 application.

I have been using binkit with good success with other nodes running binkd like 1:123/500. It's a javascript that ships with synchronet and once setup is up and running whenever your BBS is up and running.

... Enter any 12 digit prime number to continue

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Tried to find binkit.js but was not anywhere on my system. This must not have been installed with
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Re: Re: Radius and Eastern Star Hub
By: IronMan to Al on Tue Sep 13 2016 02:57 pm

Re: Radius and Eastern Star Hub
By: IronMan to All on Mon Sep 12 2016 04:31 pm

Anyone have any experience setting up radius to poll the Eastern Star Hub 1:123/500 ??

Not radius no.

I'm trying to get my Fido going with Radius and Synchronet but can't get radius to connect to my hub. I have Dbridge working fine but would like to use radius since its a true Windows 32 application.

I have been using binkit with good success with other nodes running binkd like 1:123/500. It's a javascript that ships with synchronet and once setup is up and running whenever your BBS is up and running.

Tried to find binkit.js but was not anywhere on my system. This must not have been installed with
the latest Synchro for WIN32. Does anyone know where I can download this at?

It's in CVS. You can download binkit.js along with all the other current scripts (in the "exec" folder and sub-directories) from ftp://vert.synchro.net/sbbs_run.zip

You most likely only want to use the contents of "exec" folder.

Beware: if you extract this entire zip file (with directories) and overwrite all the files all of your Synchronet folders, you will lose your configuration and customization changes. Don't do that.

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Re: Re: Radius and Eastern Star Hub
By: IronMan to Al on Tue Sep 13 2016 02:57 pm

I have been using binkit with good success with other nodes running binkd like 1:123/500. It's a javascript that ships with synchronet and once setup is up and running whenever your BBS is up and running.

Tried to find binkit.js but was not anywhere on my system. This must not have been installed with
the latest Synchro for WIN32. Does anyone know where I can download this at?

Binkit.js is in your exec directory.

You can read up on it in the wiki.. http://wiki.synchro.net/util:binkit

You'll need to add a [BinkIT] section to your ctrl/services.ini and edit/create ctrl/binkit.ini and ctrl/ftn_domains.ini and add a timed event for binkit. It's all in the wiki.

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12 Sep 16 16:31, you wrote to All:

Anyone have any experience setting up radius to poll the Eastern Star
Hub 1:123/500 ??

i'm using Taurus on one of my other systems... the setup should be the same...

in the menu at the top, select CONFIG->Polls (or try hitting CTRL-o)... on the "Periodical" tab, in the "CRON" field put in the following...

30 * * * *

in the "FTN Address List" field put 1:123/500 and you should be done...

CRON is just like the *nix cron scheduler... see below for an explanation of the schedule line given above...

# ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ min (0 - 59)
# ³ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ hour (0 - 23)
# ³ ³ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ day of month (1 - 31)
# ³ ³ ³ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ month (1 - 12)
# ³ ³ ³ ³ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ day of week (0 - 6) (0 to 6 are Sunday to
# ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ Saturday, or use names; 7 is also Sunday)
# ³ ³ ³ ³ ³
# ³ ³ ³ ³ ³
# * * * * *
30 * * * *

so, at xx:30 of every hour of every day of the month of every month and every weekday we'll poll the address in the next field... so that's

00:30
01:30
02:30
[...]
12:30
13:30
14:30

you get the picture, right? if you'd rather poll at 37 minutes after the hour, then put 37 instead of 30... DO NOT USE ALL *'s or you'll be polling every minute and you don't want that!

NOTE that the above is for just polling when there's no mail waiting to go out... if there is mail waiting, it should be sent on anyway... TBH, polling, these days, is simply a back up plan in case your connection hasn't delivered anything or can't connect to your system... fully connected systems are basically "crash me, crash you" meaning that they connect any time there's mail
waiting to go...

)\/(ark

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... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)
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Got it all up and working :-))) hip hooray

Radius seems to be doing a really good job and seems to be stable. I set my churn to poll every
hour on the hour. figured that would be plenty.. Thank for the help..


Does anyone have the areafix syntax commands for Eastern Star 1:123/500 ?
Seems Ross the admins email address is no longer valid.

12 Sep 16 16:31, you wrote to All:

Anyone have any experience setting up radius to poll the Eastern Star Hub 1:123/500 ??

i'm using Taurus on one of my other systems... the setup should be the same...

in the menu at the top, select CONFIG->Polls (or try hitting CTRL-o)... on the "Periodical" tab, in the "CRON" field put in the following...

30 * * * *

in the "FTN Address List" field put 1:123/500 and you should be done...

CRON is just like the *nix cron scheduler... see below for an explanation of the schedule line given above...

# ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ min (0 - 59)
# ³ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ hour (0 - 23)
# ³ ³ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ day of month (1 - 31)
# ³ ³ ³ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ month (1 - 12)
# ³ ³ ³ ³ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ day of week (0 - 6) (0 to 6 are Sunday to
# ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ Saturday, or use names; 7 is also Sunday)
# ³ ³ ³ ³ ³
# ³ ³ ³ ³ ³
# * * * * *
30 * * * *

so, at xx:30 of every hour of every day of the month of every month and every weekday we'll poll the address in the next field... so that's

00:30
01:30
02:30
[...]
12:30
13:30
14:30

you get the picture, right? if you'd rather poll at 37 minutes after the hour, then put 37 instead of 30... DO NOT USE ALL *'s or you'll be polling every minute and you don't want that!

NOTE that the above is for just polling when there's no mail waiting to go out... if there is mail waiting, it should be sent on anyway... TBH, polling, these days, is simply a back up plan in case your connection hasn't delivered anything or can't connect to your system... fully connected systems are basically "crash me, crash you" meaning that they connect any time there's mail
waiting to go...

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey

... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)
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Re: Re: Radius and Eastern Star Hub
By: IronMan to mark lewis on Tue Sep 13 2016 10:07 pm

Got it all up and working :-))) hip hooray

Good stuff.. :)

Does anyone have the areafix syntax commands for Eastern Star 1:123/500 ? Seems Ross the admins email address is no longer valid.

%HELP
%RESCAN AREATAG
+AREATAG

I forget them all but %HELP will list them all..

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13 Sep 16 22:07, you wrote to me:

Got it all up and working :-))) hip hooray

Radius seems to be doing a really good job and seems to be stable. I
set my churn to poll every hour on the hour. figured that would be plenty.. Thank for the help..

excellent!! however i must point out the thing about the minutes portion of the
cron... on my system, we process all mail and files at the top of the hour... new mail and files are not available until at least 15 after the hour... in my documentation i specifically ask that folks set their polls to be no earlier than 20 after... deliveries should be no later than 59 after... does that make sense?? ;) some systems run like we do over here... others can handle processing immediately... it just depends on the load and the processing capabilities...

Does anyone have the areafix syntax commands for Eastern Star 1:123/500 ? Seems Ross the admins email address is no longer valid.

ummmm... rossC is my feed... what email address do you have for him??

)\/(ark

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