New alpha dongle July 16 '08

[mvallevand]

Thanks both of you for the extra confirmation.

Hans, it could be slower than the share method if a firewall is blocking other attempts to get the dongle on port 69 masking whether the port can be opened. Can you disable your firewall and see if this makes a speed difference? if it does I will reverse the order and call the GB-PVR port first.

Martin

[HtV]

I don't use a firewall on my server. To be clear, I'm talking about a few delays in the loading of the dongle after unplugging the mvp. So that's normally a one-time event. I'll try again tonight or tomorrow and let you know. cya Hans

[mvallevand]

Upload your GBPVR logs if this continues, the only explication that I see is this is a throughput issue on the initial transfer of the dongle. By the time the this difference is even applicable, the dongle has had to be tranfer, the new linux kernel loaded and executed and finally the mvpmc startup script requests the config file.

Martin

[HtV]

Ok this is the story.
I pulled the plug of the mvp, waited ~10secs, plugged in again.
After a few secs 1 2 3 blue blocks appeared. I waited for the last 2 blocks but they wouldn't show up. It started again a few times (after ~ 1 min.) with one blue block, but wouldn't finish.
Pulled the plug again, waited ~20 secs, plugged in again. Now everything went fine, took ~40 secs to go from 3 to 4 blocks, but I think that's normal.
Than the colored sqares: the first 6 come quick the 7th takes about 10 secs and the 8th takes ~ 25 secs. (that is if I remember right).
I zipped the log file. I hope it helps. Let me know if you need more.

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Cya Hans

Ps, Anyone else having problems with the menu in the reply window (can't click smilies or the buttons in the taskbar), in firefox it won't work for me. In IE it works fine.

[mvallevand]

Hans, the problem is not mvpmc or this version, the upload of the dongle is between the MVP's firmware and sub. Here is how it is failing

Code:

2008-07-26 23:22:31.390    VERBOSE    [4]    Sent dongle block 5840
2008-07-26 23:22:31.437    VERBOSE    [4]    Sent dongle block 5860
2008-07-26 23:22:33.968    VERBOSE    [4]    TFTP dongle block 5863 resent
2008-07-26 23:22:36.484    VERBOSE    [4]    TFTP dongle block 5863 resent twice
2008-07-26 23:22:39.000    VERBOSE    [4]    TFTP dongle block 5863 not acknowledged. cancelling transfer...
2008-07-26 23:22:41.531    VERBOSE    [4]    TFTP dongle block 5864 resent
2008-07-26 23:22:44.046    VERBOSE    [4]    TFTP dongle block 5864 resent twice
..

Edit and I"m still having the same GBPVR specific firefox problems as I described here: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=36297

Martin

[HtV]

Thanks Martin,

The first failure to load the dongle had nothing to do with mvpmc, I already thought so.
But the long pause after that (when the red and green squares are showing), is that normal? As I said it doesn't really bother me because it's a kind of one-time thing.
I think it's this moment in the logs:

Code:

2008-07-26 23:23:43.515    VERBOSE    [4]    Sent: C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\dongle\dongle.mvpmc-20080716.bin
2008-07-26 23:24:39.375    VERBOSE    [4]    Received MVP TFTP request: dongle.bin.config

Maybe it's just normal, I don't know, it's been months since the last time I loaded a dongle.

Wrt Firefox, I remember changing my DNS-server to OpenDNS, so I thought maybe it's that, I changed it back to automatic (Isp dns), but at the same time I cleared the Firefox cache (never do 2 things at the same time), now it works again. But I still not sure about the cause:mad:. I set the dns-servers back to OpenDNS and it keeps working. So I guess it's a cache matter.

cya Hans

[mvallevand]

I updated the dongle with the tftp port change I talked about, I think this will make a speed difference on that last green dot.

Martin

[HtV]

Ok, downloaded it and tested it.
Works fine and definitely quicker. The last green dot is almost instant now.
Just in case you are interested, I included the log.
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Thanks and cya

Hans

[mvallevand]

Great, that is about a thirty second saving, same as my test. I thought it was related to the firewall though, I guess it is just a tftp timeout thingy.

Thanks (from the others who will use this) for your help. Like I said to Pieter I don't know what mvpmc would be "with" you.

Martin

[HtV]

Like I said to Pieter I don't know what mvpmc would be "with" you.

Well I'm quite sure it wouldn't be much different from where it is now.
But thanks anyway.

Hans