RE: [TCLUG:6837] MN-Linux Distributed.net team status

["Carl Patten" <cpatte@trimodalinc.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Troy A Johnson [mailto:john1536@tc.umn.edu]
>
> Carl,
> Can you give me some info about the Linux client, like the ports it uses
> and any other helpful trivia?

You bet.  To start with, their client FAQ is at
http://n0cgi.distributed.net/FAQ/rc5des.html .  They have clients for a
bazillion different OSs but they all work pretty much the same.

The Linux client just needs to be extracted into a directory on your server,
run once to set the config (buffers, e-mail address), and then set to run on
boot via an init script so you can forget about it.

The client communicates inbound and outbound through port 2064.

You mentioned that you are using diald.  In that case you'll want to
configure the client to buffer a large number of blocks (50 or more) and
only transmit and receive when the buffer is full.  Adjust the buffers based
on the speed of your computer.

Let the client run in the background, and otherwise ignore it.  If for some
reason you're offline for a long time and run out of blocks, it will just
pick some randomly to work on.  I leave my client on all the time except
when I do network gaming on-line and need all the CPU and ping I can get.

--
Carl Patten
Systems Administrator
Trimodal Inc.