Clients not connected to internet

[Navin]

I have a few PC's not connected to the internet that I'd like set up to crack RC5. I've read through the documentation and I can't seem to get all the settings right for sneakernetting. The only other option is via email.

Is anyone cracking RC5 this way, and wanna tell me an easy way of setting clients such as these up?

Thanks

[Wiruz]

I've got some cows in my herd without inet. - here is my solution:

I install the clients on the machines with no inet, i set the work threshold to 999, and all the other settings to standard (i didn't bother teling the client that there was no internet connection) make sure u get the right email adress. Then when it has done all the 999 blocks (that you have requested via email, and copied into the distributed folder overwriting the previous one) then you cut/copy the buff-out.rc5 on a disc and put it into the computer with internet connection. Flush the output buffers and close it. then move the buff-out.rc5 from the disc and to your local distributed folder, replacing the just-flushed one, which in an empty condition takes up 8 bytes, with the new one taking up more than 20 kilobytes. Start the cow again and now it says that "999 blocks are in buff-in.rc5. flush again, and vupti!

Request new blocks (email), and move them to the other cow - sometimes my bowser likes to make some wierd errors, like putting and extra "." in the filename - buff-in..rc5 - then the cow won't graze, 'cause its the wrong type of grass - double check that filename.

Did i miss something?

~Wiruz

[Navin]

Hey, thanks Virus

I got you until here:

"then move the buff-out.rc5 from the disc and to your local distributed folder, replacing the just-flushed one, which in an empty condition takes up 8 bytes, with the new one taking up more than 20 kilobytes. Start the cow again and now it says that "999 blocks are in buff-in.rc5. flush again, and vupti!"

Kinda lost me in there. So once you copy the buff-out.rc5 from the unconnected PC to the connected PC and flush, what else do you need to do?

[Navin]

Thanks again Wiruz, got it all figured out. You and Voogru are in for a Navin barrage...