31416

Typing "netstat -ao" in a command prompt window yields:

TCP 3700one:1048 localhost:31416 ESTABLISHED 3292
TCP 3700one:31416 3700one:0 LISTENING 3084
TCP 3700one:31416 localhost:1048 ESTABLISHED 3084

The last numbers are are the PID where 3292 is boincmgr.exe and 3084 is Boinc.exe

Comms between boinc.exe and boincmanager are "loopbacked" between ports 1048 and 31416, where boinc.exe "listens" on port 31416.

Ofcourse if you're networking this will change, but the 31416 will remain

Now this command actually works by sending a message to port 1043 on the given IP address. Now microsoft networking has a load of low level commands (all taken from BSD as allowed by the Berkley licence) (Berkley - there's that name again) so I bet there is a low level networking command in DOS that will send a defined packet to a defined port and IP. Send that to localhost from the same box, or to the IP from elsewhere on your lan, and you can kill a BOINC client cleanly.

Alternatively, it is just possible, tho unlikely, that the boinc_command cli interface has already been compiled for Windows by some enthusiast. Might be worth a google or two.

Have read a lot, learnt a little and got nowhere! Can't find any references to boinc_command cli for windows.

Could I just run it as a service and use 'net stop boinc'?

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been trying to get one to boot without a graphics card... not had any luck yet! I've installed the MS NullVGA driver, and used saprep (saprep -d) but when i remove the graphics card it doesn't boot. I'd quite like to remove it as if i can run without then i can squeeze the motherboards closer together and fit more in...

Anyway, started on the batch file to do the sneakernetting. Am using pstools to stop/start the boinc service (thanks to win2kuser over at XPC for the suggestion there!) Once it makes sense I'll post the script for suggestions/comments and incase it's any use to anyone in the future.

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Now this command actually works by sending a message to port 1043 on the given IP address. Now microsoft networking has a load of low level commands (all taken from BSD as allowed by the Berkley licence) (Berkley - there's that name again) so I bet there is a low level networking command in DOS that will send a defined packet to a defined port and IP. Send that to localhost from the same box, or to the IP from elsewhere on your lan, and you can kill a BOINC client cleanly.

Alternatively, it is just possible, tho unlikely, that the boinc_command cli interface has already been compiled for Windows by some enthusiast. Might be worth a google or two.

Have read a lot, learnt a little and got nowhere! Can't find any references to boinc_command cli for windows.

Could I just run it as a service and use 'net stop boinc'?

boinccmd.exe it's been sat in the boinc folder for as long as I know.....

I also give a link to all the commands some posts above.

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Now this command actually works by sending a message to port 1043 on the given IP address. Now microsoft networking has a load of low level commands (all taken from BSD as allowed by the Berkley licence) (Berkley - there's that name again) so I bet there is a low level networking command in DOS that will send a defined packet to a defined port and IP. Send that to localhost from the same box, or to the IP from elsewhere on your lan, and you can kill a BOINC client cleanly.

Alternatively, it is just possible, tho unlikely, that the boinc_command cli interface has already been compiled for Windows by some enthusiast. Might be worth a google or two.

Have read a lot, learnt a little and got nowhere! Can't find any references to boinc_command cli for windows.

Could I just run it as a service and use 'net stop boinc'?

boinccmd.exe it's been sat in the boinc folder for as long as I know.....

I also give a link to all the commands some posts above.

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been trying to get one to boot without a graphics card... not had any luck yet! I've installed the MS NullVGA driver, and used saprep (saprep -d) but when i remove the graphics card it doesn't boot. I'd quite like to remove it as if i can run without then i can squeeze the motherboards closer together and fit more in...

Anyway, started on the batch file to do the sneakernetting. Am using pstools to stop/start the boinc service (thanks to win2kuser over at XPC for the suggestion there!) Once it makes sense I'll post the script for suggestions/comments and incase it's any use to anyone in the future.

It is proably a restriciton of the motherboard (maybe select 'boot on no errors' or something to that wording, often found on the harddrive screen in the bios Useful if you want to boot without a keyboards etc.. as well.
If it is a restriction (as it is with one of my motherboards) you'll just have to put on in.

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cheers FC - think i misunderstood before - will look into again when i'm back tomorrow evening.

I've got 'no errors' set in the bios- maybe it's just this motherboard then...

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cheers FC - think i misunderstood before - will look into again when i'm back tomorrow evening.

I've got 'no errors' set in the bios- maybe it's just this motherboard then...

I was just thinking what I had lying around. I know I have EDO RAM :-p certianly some PC133 SDRAM and probably some PC66 I think that's what thoose Cellery 400MHz would use. Though largest module would be 128MB (don't think I have any 256MB). All my 512MB are in use crunching :-)
I have a Pentium 133, K6-233, Celeron 400 (socket), PentiumIII-m 1GHz (133/512), AthlonXP 2500+ (unknown condition) CPU lying around.
Intel (AGP) card, A few Matrox Mystique (PCI) card. AWE 32, AWE64 Value and GOLD (if I can find them). Some 4GB harddrives...

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just picked up another - P2 300 but most importantly it has SDRAM! Don't know how much yet and i think it's only pc66 but it'll do for the BP6. The HD might be useful too - i'm fairly sure i'll be running them on compactflash (at about £6 they're perfect), so i just need one quiet HD. It'll be using 1GB at most on the server machine so if this one's quiet then it'll probably get that job as my 6GB test drive is noisier than my car!

As it's coming up to winter in the northern hemisphere, we should be targetting using old PCs anywhere that there's electric heaters!

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