RE: Zebedee is dead?

Hi Neil,

On 24 Jun 2005 at 7:16, Neil Winton wrote:

it's good to hear a word from you.

> > Is Zebedee dead? no new release from v2.5.2 - September 22, 
> > 2003	.
> 
> I guess it depends on what you mean by dead. You could just look on it as
> having reached near terminal stability.

heh, that was the reason why I wrote the initial mail. the 
stability/functionality. I cannot use latest v2.5.2 version, it doesn't 
work as espected in reverse mode. 

The point of problem, that after 1 successful tunnel connection (connect, 
use, close) I cannot Open next connection on the same port. also if there 
are more than 1 tunnels configured, they doesn't work, only 1st one works 
(and only 1 time).

for details, please see: 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=856466&group_id=25
020&atid=383159

Is someone experiencing the same problem? or please can someone test the 
setup CFG setup and post results, logs here?

the v2.5.1 doesn't have such problems, but there is another problem. in 
v2.5.1 the tunnel dies after 30 mins of inactivity under any setup. I need 
to keep a-live the connection, by sending dumb packets to it.

> If there's things in the manual that are wrong then it would be interesting
> to know what they are.

for example Quick-Reference Summary tells that "acceptconnecttimeout" and 
"serverconnecttimeout" keywords are used in Client cfg file and also in 
Server cfg file. if this applies for normal mode and reverse mode, or 
how's that.

> I do owe it to you all to turn Zebedee 2.5.2 into a final release 2.6. I've
> had a volunteer (thanks Michael!) to help with the documentation -- which
> is one of the main things that needs finishing. I've also got a couple of
> contributed patches to add in (64-bit platform support, HTTP proxy
> authentication and maybe per-target identity checking).

Please will be hard to include also this?:

* posibility to setup tunnels only from client side (i'm talking about 
normal-mode) now you need to setup tunnels at BOTH sides of tunnel (client 
& server cfg files). I will have server at 1 place, and I can dynamically 
change tunnels setup by editing CFG file and restarting client without 
affecting server host/process.

* possibility to run Zebedee in bi-directional hybrid mode. So 1 
client/server pair will make tunnels for both directions (from client to 
server and vice versa). see: 

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=956656&group_id=25
020&atid=383162 for more information.

> > is there some replacement for zebedee? I don't think so, 
> > zebedee is crossplatform and is cabable to tunnel UDP 
> > traffic. this is unique soft in the networking world.
> 
> As well as the other solutions that have been mentioned, like stunnel, you
> might want to look at OpenVPN.

stunnel - sucky, more ports, more tunnels. Zebedee has 1 tunnel for 
unlimited ports.
OpenVPN - ok, but more complicated.

/Palo




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