The long-promised Rogers Wave to @Home upgrade is here, so
I went and did it as a "beta tester".
... apologies if I'm duplicating stuff;I hope there's something new..
Although there were a few hiccups, I never actually got cut off
and I believe most everything is now working again.
Compared to Wave, @Home offers head-end proxy cache and closer, probably
more numerous, mail, web servers etc. The routing has been changing
slowly as the @Home merger proceeded and seems no different, though
I have new nameservers.
I got email from Wave asking if I'd like to try the upgrade, and when I
said "yes" they sent an "ID". At an opportune moment (feeling safer
when I was at home rather than logged in from New York) I tried
the procedure, which involved going to a domain-restricted Website
and entering the ID in a form, which then let me download a DOS
self-executing file, then click "next" to change things at the Wave end.
I had intended to run the exe file under Win95 to figure out what
was going on, and this would have probably worked if the file hadn't
been corrupted/truncated. I found "unzip" will work on these
self-extracting files, but only an NT .DLL file was present.
Once the upgrade kicked in, though, my ID was invalidated and I couldn't
get back to the upgrade page to download another copy, and my old Wave
hostname was deleted from the routing tables and I could no longer connect
to the NNTP server to ask questions. I think maybe I was locked out of the
Wave DNS too, but I had another one in resolv.conf. My old static
numeric ip remained valid so I could still connect from outside; I had
an entry in the remote hosts file anyway.
At this point (3am) the hotline support had gone home, but I searched
around a bit on DejaNews, AltaVista etc. and pushed on.
So .. the "ID" is my new hostname. Get dhcpcd 0.70 from sunsite,
compile it, run it with "-h hostname" option and it returns
an IP and DNS entries. Next day, talk to hotline and get
a URL to download the Win95 stuff without the ID restriction.
That works, too, though I never did get the little dhcp32.exe
setup program going, and had to enter the hostname manually in Win95
network config for DHCP to work there too.
Doubtless if dhcp32.exe had worked properly things would have gone easier.
As it was, I had downloaded it under Linux with a view to booting
Win95 later to run it, and didn't realize at that point that I could unzip
it to check. I suspect that once past the Beta stage the upgrade path
won't be so secretive, anyway.
I've scrawled a few words on the subject at
http://members.home.net/adaviel/Upgrade.html, plus older stuff at
http://members.home.net/adaviel/LinuxWave.html
ciao!
Deniable unless digitally signed
Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376
http://andrew.triumf.ca/andrew