ezTCP progress report
  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Robin
    Posts: 741 from 2003/2/24
    I like the MiamiDX-GUI . It gives a quick overview
    and at the same time let you easily configure the stack.
    Perhaps a user/expert-modus where "dangerous" settings are
    hidden from normal users.
  • »14.08.05 - 15:36
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    Wishmaster
    Posts: 342 from 2003/6/29
    I hope this TCP-Stack will be stable and ultra fast.
    Concerning the GUI I would say something similar to MiamiDX for a start could be used.
    Will PPPoE be supported ?
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  • »14.08.05 - 17:26
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    Krashan
    Posts: 1107 from 2003/6/11
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    Concerning the GUI I would say something similar to MiamiDX for a start could be used.

    Hmm, I want to avoid such complicated GUI.

    Will PPPoE be supported?

    Not in the 'bounty' release. After that everything will be possible: as ezTCP is planned to be opensourced, someone can add PPPoE, or even I can do it if it is openly documented standard (but well I do not have a place to test it...).
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    Acill
    Posts: 1933 from 2003/10/19
    From: Port Hueneme, Ca.
    I think the GUI should be simple and easy to use. That is the number one thing I would say. MiamiDX is a mess. i dont even use the GUI any more since I set it all up.
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    analogkid
    Posts: 724 from 2004/11/3
    From: near myself
    I share Robin's opinion, the GUI should be simple, in the style of MiamiDx, with an additional expert mode.
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Stevo
    Posts: 919 from 2004/1/24
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    Though it might be too much asked for the bounty release, what about a wizard? A step-by-step setup manager for the common user. With such a wizard present, a more complex/complicated gui (maybe like miamidx?) shouldn't be a problem or even be welcomed by more advanced users.
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    takemehomegrandma
    Posts: 2732 from 2003/2/24
    Regarding the GUI - I see a danger in making it too simple. It seems that people have various opinions about the MiamiDX GUI (I personally think it's quite logical and self-explainatory), but say that you were to redesign the MiamiDX GUI - how would you redo it so that it will become more "simple" (whatever that is) without loosing the ability to control every aspect of the network setup?

    That said, if Krashan feels that a GUI á la MiamiDX would be too complex and drain too much effort from the main project, then I would have no problem with a "simple" one (again: whatever that is) or even no GUI at all. Perhaps a powerful GUI could become a different bounty then?
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    ThePlayer
    Posts: 1087 from 2003/3/24
    From: Hamburg/Germany
    I think a GUI is very importent.
    But First we need ezTCP, without GUI but with a XML Configfile. Krashan could release ezTCP with some Configfiles with DHCP and static IP.
    And then an ezTCP Gui bounty could be started with a setup Wizard, and a GUI with an "Advanced User Mode" switch.
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    ironfist
    Posts: 254 from 2004/4/22
    From: Pegasos.org
    Doesn't the current bounty demand a GUI?..
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Zylesea
    Posts: 2095 from 2003/6/4
    For program usage I would like a very simple gui. Rather like Genesis than Miami.

    IMHO the preferences do not need a gui which addresses all possible options as long as editing a configfile will not be too cryptic. A good documentation should be enough. Remember that MOS is not a n00b system.
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  • »17.08.05 - 12:29
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    Posts: 278 from 2003/3/4
    I guess that if it is called "EZ" it should be easy for everyone setting it up and control it.
    It does not prevent the use of an editable config file.
  • »17.08.05 - 13:03
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