F@H members please respond

[simon389]

in order to get past my local proxy to fold@home I need to know the IP and port that folding@home would use. I am using this to tunnel past my proxy and get to the stanford servers.

Help me out with this.

The program I am using is HTTPort 3.SN1 available at Download.com

If there is another program that might work better let me know that one as well. Thanks!

Simon:)

[Hugo 59]

I don't know but I responded:D

[Tithulta]

Don't ahve a clue, but someone will eventually come thru witht he answer you need. Just be patient

[Ebola]

if your on a win 9x box go to start, then run, type winip.cfg or winipcfg

one of the two. it should tell you your ip. i dont know what port but i think explorer uses 8080.

i have no clue. diregaurd what i say. its meaningless.

[Ploaf]

Mine almost always connects on port 8080

[Dunga Bee]

Look at your FAHlog.txt file on a machine that you have tried to connect from and see what is says.

I think the port is 8080, but I'm not 100%. Here is an excerpt from my log.


Benchmarking ...
Trying to send all finished work units
+ Attempting to get work packet
- Connecting to assignment server
- Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.111).
+ News From Folding@Home: Welcome to 2.0
- Connecting to server (171.64.122.111) on port 8080
+ Connection established
+ Requesting work
(Got client header, size 512 bytes)
- Receiving payload (expected size: 51234)
(Got 51234 bytes of core data)
+ Received work.

[hooziewhatsit]

Those are the same numbers that are in my fahlog.txt. I'd try entering those into the program and trying them to see if they work.

It appears that the destination IP is 171.64.122.111, and the port is 8080.

good luck, and fold on!

[asmodean]

I think you have to open the whole 174.64.122.xxx range, because for me, that 'xxx' is 110.

[Dunga Bee]

Any updates here?

[zakelwe]

There is a misunderstanding here ...

What is happening is this :-

1) Stanford doesn't use the 8080 port to get work to you, though it does use the standard http port 8080 to let you see the assignment server.

2) Your company, for security reasons, only allows the standard 8080 http port to be opened both ways, so you cannot connect to IRC or a game server or Napster I would guess. Therefore you cannot get the work. It is not that you are not using the right port for Standford in my opinion, even if you were your company proxy would stop it.

There are therefore two options -

a) Ask you company to open up the Standford port on your proxy when you discover what Standford are using

b) Use the tunneling proxy to bypass it.

I suggest 2 :)


What happens with the tunnelling ( has that two l's or 1 ? ) software is that when you connect to Stanford it grabs the work on whatever port it is being supplied with and then converts it back to 80 so it gets through your company server.

Unfortunately with f@H2 you normally have to tell it what your proxy server it is using and if you do then it bypasses the tunneling software and throws itself headlong on the normal proxy and fails.

Therefore you have to use a sockscap server and tell F@H2 there is no proxy ( like in the Matrix .. " There is no Proxy " ) and RUN F@H2 via sockscap in a socksified environment . So what happens is :-

1) F@H2 runs with no proxy but in a socksified environment and so when it requests/sends data it automatically uses the sockscap proxy

2) The sockcap proxy uses 8080 to the tunnelling proxy through your lan proxy/firewall .

3) The tunnelling proxy converts to whatever port Stanford are using, grabs the data and converts it back to port 80 and sends it back through your company proxy to your sockscap proxy which feeds it through to it's child F@H2 program.

Well, that's what I think happens ;)

I was ill today so not at work, but I'll be putting up the entire process including software used and settings on [H] in the next couple of days.


Regards

Andy

[H]

[Dunga Bee]

Thanks Andy. Really appreciate the info.

Hopefully we get it figured out shortly. :)

I'll keep an eye for your write up.

Thanks again.

[simon389]

I understand what I have to do, just not how to do it?

1. What tunneling software is best?
2. What IP and Port does stanford use?
3. What remote port do I use on my computer?


Thanks for the response. I really would like to get these Calvin computers up and running for folding@home.

Simon

[Dunga Bee]

Go to download.com and take a look at "SocksCap32".

I believe that is what you need. If I understand Andy correctly, you will set up FAH to NOT use a proxy and then actually have SocksCap run FAH and direct the IP traffic.

Make sense? I did not download SocksCap so I can't talk specifically about it but I'm sure once you get it, it will become clear.

Hope this helps. :)

I want to see that school get online too !!! :D :D

[simon389]

Sockscap32 is the EASIEST program i've used to tunnel with so far. Unfortunetely, folding at home just sits at the "contacting server for work" stage when I run it socksified. I do not know what theproblem is. Does anybody else have a proxy firewall they could try this on?

[Dunga Bee]

Here (http://www.socks.nec.com/reference/sockscap.html) is a link to the SocksCap web site. Maybe there is some info there.


Here is some info from another message board that may also help:

I am too behind a firewall, a HTTP proxy on port 3128. It's about the same as what you have. Well I've got G@H and F@H to work through it. I'd use socks2http and sockscap, it works great for me. Point sockscap to socks2http and put G@H in sockscap. It's as simple as that and there is really no reason why it shouldn't work.


Here is another note that implies something similar. It looks like you need another peice of software to work with SocksCap.


I have also tried running folding with a program called sockscap and then running the socks traffic through a http tunnelling program like HTTHost. This works, but I am unable to make all the programs run successfully as a service and start in the right order. I narly had it, but the HTTHost program is very flakey and dosent like running as a service at all. It also spits an error when the machine is shut down as the service wasnt stopped correctly. The sockcapp program seems to run OK, and manages to "socksafy" folding, but again HTTHost let me down.


Hope this info helps put the pieces together. If I had a proxy to try on, I'd do it, but alas, no proxy here.

Good luck.

[zakelwe]

Hello guys ,

I've posted my findings on [H] including the links to the tunnelling software I use, sockcap info, and the settings to use for sockcap, F@H2 and the tunnelling software.

Let me know if you get it to work.

Regards

Andy@[H]

[Dunga Bee]

Will give it a read and let you know how we make out.

Thanks again Andy.

[simon389]

I've posted my findings on [H] including the links to the tunnelling software I use, sockcap info, and the settings to use for sockcap, F@H2 and the tunnelling software
What? What is [H]? Where are his findings?

[Ploaf]

[H]=[H]ardOCP.
http://www.hardocp.com/
http://www.hardforum.com ?? I think that's right


This is the link to the write up
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=256134

That is a very well done post. Thanks Andy.

[simon389]

HOLY MUTHA IT WORKED!!!!!!!

ANDY.....

Thanks SO MUCH for this. I've been waiting so long and working so hard for this and now it actually works!!!!

Your article should be published or something.

Thanks to everybody else. You guys RAWK.

AND NOW>...............

Lez do some FOLDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zakelwe]

Hi,

Glad it worked. It's a great feeling when you don't get that bloody sleep message and it starts to download some work !

Good luck with your battle with the Oz guys :)

Although it's a shame that you don't fold for [H] ;) sob sob sniff sniff :D I have been hanging around your forums since March and I have a bit of a soft spot for www.overclockers.com ever since PimpDaddy used to make me laugh so much ...

Do a search on PimpDaddy in March on the folding thread( thread "Who's your daddy" ) and read his stirring words ! I replied as Ultimate Folder II .. that guy used to crack me up. Every time he got excited his grammar went south, the more excited he got the more his speeling (sic) went into a frenzy. You definitely need him now with your latest battle.

Where is he now ?

Regards

Andy

[Dunga Bee]

Great News !!

Now to get all those PCs online !!!

That is going to kick some major butt !!

Andy - Thanks very much for your help. I know that there has been some discontent on your Folding Team and if you'd like to throw some WUs our way, that would be cool too :p .

Seriously though, thanks again.

[Dunga Bee]

Know what this thread needs ? A good bumping...that's what.

Any news Simon ?

Looks like OC.au has a few more heavy hitters on board now. Plus look at 'foad' from OC.uk.

Fold On.

[simon389]

F@H wont send its results. no use installing it on 50 computers when it wont send. i can get work just not send it.

any help would be helpful:(

[Dunga Bee]

What error are you seeing ? Is it in your fahlog.txt file ?

[simon389]

Its the usual crap.

"Unable to send results
keeping unit in queue"

Then it starts working on another unit which it will keep in queue and try to send but fail

not fun

[Dunga Bee]

Maybe check some other forums to see if they've had luck, perhaps [H], or ARS, or OCAU.

I am not in the Yahoo group where the Stanford people hang out, but I know Ploaf is and Ebola (I think).

Send Ploaf a PM and see if he can get any info from those groups.

This stinks that we can't get those machines on line. Odd that you can get work and not send it.

Does the software you are using require you to tell it what ports FAH will be using ? Maybe we just need to tell it the ports ? Or does it just take whatever traffic that comes from FAH on whatever port and then do it's thing?

Trying to help...:(

[Ploaf]

We're already looking. :) Just haven't found anything yet :(
I posted the messages that I found from the Yahoo group in another thread, but it wasn't much

http://forums.overclockers.ws/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45329

[Dunga Bee]

Simon,

See the thread kendan started re: the new FAH client. If I read the post right, it looks like it may have better proxy support.

Worth a try ;)

DB

[adamtekh]

i havent be able to get the consel to work , but if u get the stander graphic thingy u can tell it what ip and what port

i use analogx proxy www.analongx.com

and i use 90.0.0.xxx with a 255.255.255.0 standerd LAN party setup :)