Permission to come aboard

[Rayven]

Greetings,

With little fanfare, I have joined your plucky little team. I have been cracking for just under two weeks, have some observations, and some questions.

I run dnet on 5 PCs, three mediocre ones at work, but with Net connection, a really slow PC at home and an Athlon 800 at home that cracks one unit every two minutes. Unfortunately, the two at home have no Net connection, so I have to do the sneaker-net turmoil. I was please to see that I hit 2nd page in less than a week, only because the majority of the 2nd and third page are abandoned cars. As of this writing I am number 175 and gaining ground.

My question concerns sneaker-netting. I have looked at the very sketchy instruction provided by this team, and I have also read the official help file provided by d-net. In the help file, users are instructed to:

* create a ckpoint.cp file on your non-networked machine
* email dnet for more blocks and save to floppy
* copy the buff-in file to ckpoint, something which I am afraid I don't know how to do in Windows. I am resigned to open a command line and type 'copy a:\buff-in.rc5 c:\dnet\ckpoint.cp

The client supposedly imports the blocks from ckpoint.cp to buff-in.rc5.

My questions are: if there are already blocks in buff-in, are they overwritten during the import process?

When the client is running, I see the number of units in buff-out, waiting to be flushed, but the number of units in buff-in always remains at zero. Namely, I never know how many units are currently waiting to be cracked. Therefore I run the risk of the home PCs finishing the buffer and then sitting there, wasting time and CPU cycles, until I get around to importing more blocks.
Am I doing something wrong?

Thank you,
Rayven

[phenious]

I cant help with the question but welcome to the team dont worry some one here will be able to help ya

-:: edited ::-

just read the full post:P if there are no blocks in the IN buffer then you are cracking random blocks I think. You can e-mail a server for a In-buf.rc5 packet and just dump it in your dnet directory... i dont have the e-mail........some one help!


-: phenious :-

[This message has been edited by phenious (edited 07-02-2001).]

[randy48]

I run a lot of machines sneaker net, never messed with a checkpoint file. I get massive amounts of blocks via e-mail, save them to disk and rename them as I save (1, 2, 3 etc). I then move the blocks from floppy, to the distributed.net directory on the machine. Then open a DOS windows, change to the distributed.net directory and type: dnetc -import 1 <hit enter> I add enough blocks for about a week (on an AMD 900, I would add 3 sets of 3000 blocks (by e-mail you would ask for: numblocks=3000) to add the second set of blocks, type in dnetc -import 2 and so on (or hit F3 and backspace to change the 1 to a 2)). Your buff-out file well hold all the completed work. When you get ready to dump your blocks, throw it a clean floppy, go to the dnet directory, change the buff-out file to 1 (2, 3 whatever) cut and paste it to the floppy, then go to the next machine and do the same, just remember to give each buff-out file a different name. When you have them all on the floppy, go to the Internet machine, cut and paste the files to the dnet directory, open a DOS window, CD to distributed.net and: dnetc -import 1 etc to import all the files to the buff-out.rc5 file. Then flush!

Welcome to the team!

[NoCtrl]

Try here.
http://www.distributed.net/docs/tutor_netopt.html.en

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[jig-miester]

Welcome aboard Rayven

I think Randy's post says it all.

[izzzy12k]

Welcome Aboard!!!

izzy

[nunyadam]

permission granted , welcome aboard.

nunya