| Active |
Check this box if you want to enable IPchat. |
| Handle |
Enter your handle, nickname, pseudo, whatever. |
| Name |
Enter your name*.
Note that this information is also used in WEBchat. |
| e-mail |
Enter your e-mail address*.
Note that this information is also used in WEBchat. |
| Location |
Enter your location (e.g. city, country)*. |
| Comment |
Enter anything you like (e.g. your quote of the day). |
| Join Sound |
Check this box if you want DynamIP
to play a sound file whenever a new participant joins IPchat. You can select any WAV file.
Click on the button "Join Sound" to test your settings. |
| Hail Sound |
Check this box if you want DynamIP
to play a sound file whenever another chat participant hails you. You can select any WAV
file. Click on the button "Join Sound" to test your settings.
Note that WEBchat uses the same WAV file to notify you of incoming WEBchat messages. |
| Chat Font |
You can select any font you like. The default font is MS Sans Serif. |
| Enable IPchat on Connect |
If this option is checked DynamIP
automatically turns on IPchat whenever a connection is established. |
| Scan Interval |
DynamIP scans all IP addresses
(as defined in the file IPDB.txt) at user-defined intervals. |
| Sleep at Startup |
If this option is checked DynamIP
automatically turns on IPchat's "Sleep" mode whenever a connection is
established. |
| Silent |
Chat participants are automatically removed from your chat
list if their IPchat engine has kept silent for more than the specified number of minutes.
This setting should be somewhat higher than your scanning interval, otherwise you might
lose participants if their IPchat engine does not reply to your polling every time. The
Silent setting is used to clean out those chat participants who got disconnected on their
side before their IP chat engine was able to sign off properly (e.g. due to a lost
connection). |
| Short Chat Output |
Click this box if you don't need detailed information
about the sender of each IPchat message (e.g. time the message was sent, IP address,
etc.). |
| Auto Distribute Chatlist |
Check this box if you want DynamIP
to pass on your complete chat list to all new participants as they join. This makes for
somewhat more transparent communication (if you know what I mean...). |
| By Invitation Only |
If you don't want to be bothered by people who just happen
to scan your IP range you can check this box. Only people with an IP address in your very
own scanning range (as defined in the file IPDB.txt) are allowed
to join your chat list. |
| Accept NetMeeting Requests |
Check this box if you don't mind other chat participants
establishing a NetMeeting connection with you. Unchecking the box helps you keep away
those lamers who don't get it if you tell them to stop bothering you (after all, it takes
a couple of seconds to fire up NetMeeting even on a fast Pentium II...). More information
about NetMeeting is available at http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting/. |
| IPDB file |
Enter the name of the file that contains the IP addresses
you want DynamIP to scan. The default file name is IPDB.txt. Clicking the button "Edit IPDB file"
starts your text editor (the one that is associated with the file extension TXT, usually
Notepad.exe). Clicking on the button "Add Chatlist to IPDB" adds all your
current chat participants to your IPDB file. You can specify IP
address ranges to be scanned as follows: each IP address range must start on a new line,
either with a "+" or a "-"
(without the quotes). Here is how it works:
| IPchat: |
You can include ranges or exclude individual IP addresses: include: +a.b.c.from
to (all IP addresses from a.b.c.from
to a.b.c.to)
exclude: -a.b.c.d (excludes the IP address a.b.c.d)
Examples:
+178.45.10.0 255
the above entry will cause DynamIP to scan all the following IP
address: 178.45.10.0, 178.45.10.1, 178.45.10.2, ..., 178.45.10.254, 178.45.10.255.
-178.45.10.187
the above entry will cause DynamIP to skip scanning the IP
address 178.45.10.187. |
| HTTPscan: |
IP address ranges are specified the same way they are in
IPchat. You can also specify a particular page to be the root page (in brackets [.]) and
name HTTP servers (in <.>). For example, if you want to specify the DynamIP
home page on my personal web server, assuming I'm somewhere in the range 36.173.0.0 ..
220, then you would add the following entry to the file IPDB.txt:
+36.173.0 220 <cmuServer> [DynamIP.htm] |
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