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. . . RELEASE.TXT . InJoy Release 2.0b . September 1, 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . ___ _ . |_ _|_ __ | | ___ _ _ . | || '_ \ _ | |/ _ \| | | | . | || | | | |_| | (_) | |_| | . |___|_| |_|\___/ \___/ \__, | . |___/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Best Way To The Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F/X Communications . DK-4300 Holbaek . Denmark . E-mail: injoy@fx.dk . http://www.fx.dk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Copyright (c) 1998, F/X Communications, All Rights Reserved. . . ========================================================================== R E L E A S E N O T E S ========================================================================== o Release 2.0b (Beta) - DOD improved. -- Instant DOD removes need for an initialization call. -- DOD trigger packet in the DOD.DMP file. -- Implemented filtering plugin. - Numerous PPP implementation changes to meet requirements of a PPP Server and allow shared PPP code between projects. - New registration scheme (includes expiration of 1.x and earlier Basic registrations). - Introduced new way of adding the PPP0 interface on Warp 4. Got rid of the annoying .0 route. - Support for PING from NAT clients. Done by broadcasting ICMP replies to all NAT clients. - Support for IRC DCC CHAT and IRC DCC SEND via NAT. - If InJoy sees a default route at startup, it is now removed at connect and restored at disconnect. - TCP/IP 4.1 support. - New internal code libraries (DLL's) for: -- Common OS/2 functions used in all F/X products -- Low level IP -- NAT/Masquerading -- Filtering -- Firewall - Autostart section -- "Hangup and Exit", now runs the programs set up to autostart at InJoy Disconnect. -- Fixed the problem of not being able to start programs after a while (caused by InJoy "remembering" every started program, even when it didn't need too). -- No longer mandatory to specify a working directory. If not specified the path name from the .EXE name will be used. (Just like OS/2 usually does it.) - InJoy no longer prompts for user-action when RESOLV file could not be updated. The situation is just logged! - Added date to IN-JOY.TRC file. - Fixed the bug causing the following two settings to be swapped: -- Average CPS based on data sent. -- Average CPS based on data received. - If the COM port can't be opened, InJoy will now retry till a key is pressed. - Added the option for showing or removing the "connected box". - The "connected box" now shows the number of FCS errors in the session. - A press of SHIFT-F9 now dumps the NAT table (masqed users). - Added an option to allow a "send terminate request" prior to InJoy initiating the hang up. - Added triggered dialing capability from SETJOY.EXE. - Multi-homed environment for hostid (known in DOIP as the "Primary Interface") is now available in General Options. o Release 1.20 (Beta) - Fixed a problem with SetJoy's password command line switch. - Squashed a bug causing MS-CHAP setting to be ignored. (If the server requested it, it would always run.) o Release 1.14 (Beta) - Found and fixed a nifty trap that would occur if the ISP sends a packet with a size bigger than the MRU on the serial interface, yet smaller than the maximum sized PPP packet. - Hostnames starting with 'H' used to be ignored if specified on command line. - Fixed a trap that is very unlikely to happen on most installations. Would only happen if the TCP/IP stack delivers packets bigger than MTU. Seemed to happen sometimes in the middle of backup procedure. - Added a SetJoy /P: switch to allow a password to be passed in combination with the /O:<host> parameter. o Release 1.13 (Beta) - Reworked the ticker summary to accommodate differences in FAT and HPFS considered. - Redial attempts made 4 digits wide (1-9999). o Release 1.12b (Beta) - Removed Visual Age (tm) optimization as that caused all InJoy disconnect actions to be grayed out, even when registered at the "Extended Client" level, or higher. o Release 1.11b (Beta) - Bug in SLIP idle timeout tracked down. - Registration processing is now faster and and more secure. - Since changing an unnamed ticker caused a trap, it is now impossible to save a ticker with no name. - Stopping a dial attempt with the ESC key, after a script had started running caused a redial instead of a simple dial abort. Bug found and exterminated. - Ported InJoy to VisualAge - enabling a fair amount of optimization, both to InJoy itself and the user-interface. - InJoy now uses the OS2_SHELL environment variable to know which *.CMD to spawn when autostarting *.CMD files. o Release 1.1 - Created Host Triggered Dialing - a Dial on Demand, in reverse. With the correct code, a server, ISP or laptop connected 'road warrior' can trigger a reboot and/or dial-back on command. - Completely reworked the autostarting section. It is now possible to start/stop selected programs with F9/F10 keys; at InJoy launch, just prior to dialing, at host connect, just prior to disconnect, at disconnect and at InJoy exit. (Any other needs? <G>) - Developed a 'work around' for a bug in the auto-stopping of an auto-started program. - Created SetJoy utility to change InJoy's operating parameters while loaded and running. Options available now are changing the Idle Timeout or Timer values or causing a disconnect. - With SetJoy and the new autostarting routines it is possible to pause InJoy and allow autostarted program launch and operation PRIOR to dialing and/or disconnect. - Added feature to allow InJoy to access NT servers running the MS version of CHAP - Fixed SLIP (it switched to PPP in some circumstances) - Made the GUI Ticker's browser file name longer - Added non-scaled bitmap support to GUI Ticker - GUI Ticker's "VCR" controls now work - Created new default scheme for the GUI Ticker - Fixed a bug which allowed an opening screen to react to a previous screen's mouse click - Fixed a cursor movement problem for some input fields - Minimum redial attempt value cannot be set to less than one - Fixed a trap that occurred when attempting to shut down while the 'About Box' was opening. - Added function key support for starting and stopping tickers. Use F7 to start and F8 to stop tickers. - Added text to the bottom line of the terminal window which lists function key usage. Text changes periodically. - Changed the dial timeout value to 3 digits - Ticker protocol updated and bug-fixed. - Ticker text begins 'crawl' from the right edge and and clears during font resizing. - Fixed the EXCEPTQ.DLL sharing problem. - Fixed trap caused by calling a non-Dial on Demand host and then switching to a Dial on Demand host. - Added option to turn off screen tracing. - Program now removes the x.x.x.0 route generated and left by OS/2's TCP/IP. (However, this does not solve the entire problem.) - Added IPTRACE support. - Added option to turn off screen tracing. To save CPU usage when looking for a problem. - Fixed a trap that happened on some computers out of the blue. - Fixed the www.microsoft.com connection problem for IP Masqueraded LAN clients. - Hang-up string now accepts changes. - Reformatted the trace output screen and altered a few sounds. - Repaired connection log decimal point shifting bug which yielded an invalid number of hours connected for some long connections. - Fixed a problem that allowed MTU to not always be set correctly for SLIP. - Added option on the communications setup page to automatically launch packet mode when dialing via Terminal Mode (e.g. on a leased line or NULL modem). - Changed the maximum allowable setting for MRU from 4096 to 4136. - Added option to ignore ISP sent ECHO requests (testing for "live" connections) allowing timeout clock to continue running. - Fixed bug which caused round robin dialing to call selected numbers only. - Fixed a bug that caused auto-started *.CMD files to not have parameters passed to them at start up - Reset COM port stopbit to +1. - Added incoming and outdated ticker types. New articles go into incoming, and outdated ticker postings go into the outdated ticker type. o Release 1.00 - Lots of small changes that could easily double the size of this README. - Implemented IP masquerading. Share a SLIP/PPP connection simultaneously with work stations on your LAN, including Mac's's, Win95, 3.1 and all other TCP/IP clients. Only a normal, single user, dialup account with either a static or dynamic IP address is needed. - Option implemented for not masquerading the InJoy, allowing for any possible protocol or server. - Added autostart per host. - Releases COM port when not really in use. - PAP/CHAP can now be individually enabled/disabled. - Added option to make the scripts interactive, so they can prompt for input (e.g. a constantly changing password). - Implemented the graphical ticker. Several instances of the ticker can be run with individual schemes. - Implemented SLIP and Compressed SLIP. - Script handling extended with automatic IP number grabbing for SLIP. - Implemented Dial On Demand. - Port speeds configurable to 345,600 (hardware and driver permitting) - Auto line drop if modem negotiates a low speed connection. Feature known as minimum connect speed. - Disconnect actions. Exit at any of these events: -- Any disconnect -- Any unprovoked disconnect -- Idle TIMEOUT -- TIMER expire -- Dialing failure - Changed re-connect for operation even if the SLIP/PPP connection was not fully established. - Added phone number list with up to 10 phone numbers. - Added option for PPP FLAG, allowing you to specify how big the interval between packets must be, for InJoy to insert a 0xFF at start of the PPP packet! - Added several new fields to the connection log. A few are shown on connection log screen, the rest can be seen in CONNECT.TXT, while online . . . it has lots of information about your connection. - Better support for sharing a single modem within an IBM PEER workgroup - Added option to disable all sounds. - Added options for disabling the timeout and timer warnings. - Graceful logoff - use ALT-T to do a graceful logoff as described in the PPP protocol. - Configurable user confirmations. - Added dial timeout. Disconnect if dialing is not done within x seconds. - Added configurable hang-up string. - Lots of new CPS options, like smart notation, idle sensitivity, etc. - Added option for NOT giving warning box at hang-up fail. - Better support for leased line with DCD constantly high! o Release 0.09 - Fixed a bug in ACCM handling. ACCM specifies a table of characters that must be escaped. If the table was zeroed, I optimized by not escaping anything and used the quick memory copy functions. However, I had temporarily forgotten that two bytes must always be escaped. - Introduced the 'General Setup' section which allows user to specify confirmation and 'About Box' setup. - Fixed minor bugs in the screen library which sometimes let the 'Connected Box' show through the other screens. That has has been partly fixed. There is still a known problem if you invoke some screen dialogs during negotiating phase of log on, so DON'T!! - Updated documentation and added info for changing parity within scripts. - When auto selecting a host (from either the command line or the auto connect flag), that host is now highlighted in the 'Host List Box'. - Auto connecting to a host disables the start up 'About Box'. o Release 0.08 - InJoy converted to shareware. - Added commercial server/announcement ticker (OFF is default). - Started the documentation. - Added BETA support for PM patrol (PM Patrol 4.2d). - Added parity switching within the script, making InJoy the best choice for CompuServe users. - Moved the CPS information near the bottom, just above status line (as users wanted). - Check box added to switch CPS monitors on or off. (Turning the monitor off releases more CPU resources for other uses.) - Can now abandon current dial attempt by pressing the SPACE key. - Fixed a bug regarding forcing ACCM to 0. - Did some limited software optimization. - KILLJOY.EXE included in archive. Allows killing of InJoy while connection log is still updated. - Added an InJoy icon (Can you design a better one?) - Added use of [$PASSWORD] and [$USERID] in scripts to protect encrypted passwords. - No longer is 0.0.0.0 accepted as gateway address. This could cause TCP/IP stack related traps due to an error in a few (old) servers. - Worked to make InJoy more trap proof. - Did some more tests using COM.SYS and learned it cannot handle simultaneous writes from two or more threads. For now I serialize just a bit more, but it will cost on performance. Later I will make put it a user selectable option. This will solve the "reading/writing port" problem. - MRU wasn't used properly and an MRU of 0 was indicated on first configure request. - 'Connected Window' shows IP addresses and timer/timeout info. - Speed now reported correctly when doing a 'netstat -n'. The speed reported is the one of the COM port. - Made an important change for the CHAP negotiation which will only have effect connections to a Windows NT server. The ones I have explored handle CHAP/PAP negotiations very interestingly! - InJoy now supports host name directly on command line. - When learning a script, it now remembers what was received just before pressing ESC. It didn't before and that caused problems. - A 'Check Box' added to autostart dialog to allow easy means to disable a program from being autostart started. - Redial is now working as follows: -- Primary phone number is called as many times as specified by the redial attempts. -- Secondary phone number is called as many times as specified by the redial attempts. o Release 0.07 - This version shows IP addresses in the 'Connected Box'. - MRU was always set to 0 in first negotiation block, now fixed. o Release 0.06 - Autostarting of programs added. - PPP options now available: -- Priority (for the PPP threads) -- MRU -- FCS check (disable) -- Automated pinger (not ready) -- Interface attachment name (e.g. 'PPP') -- Force ACCM to 0 -- Protocol compression -- Address and control field compression -- Restart timer (can really improve cut negotiation time) -- Max tries (of times to send a negotiation block) - Auto re-connect now works - Negotiation times should be very small. I negotiate with my host in 2 seconds! (Use care with restart timer under PPP options. See USERGUID.TXT) - Connect strings shown in 'Connected Box'. Only works if InJoy makes call, or if terminal mode dialing uses a script that waits for something after the CONNECT string. - Automatic rejection of unknown protocols should make sure the user no longer sees a series of 'unknown protocol' being reported. - Graceful logoff added. Pressing ALT-T makes InJoy send a "PPP Terminate Request", which is good for those hosts that do not deal with a carrier drop very well. - Added ability to automatically dial and connect to host upon start - Now encrypting password in data files - Fixed IP addressing now works - Added a connection log, with accumulated time usage - Reset button added to the trace setup (deletes the trace file) - No more external calls to IFCONFIG and ROUTE (saves some time) - New hangup algorithm (awaits your test) - Now shows disconnect message in 'Terminal Mode Window' at disconnect - Added version number to data files so user should never have to create hosts from scratch, again. - This version required re-creation of hosts one last time. Sorry! - Redial bug fixed. - Time stamp added to trace lines. - Now clearing 'Output' and 'Terminal Window' at [Dial] press - Total time connected added to the 'Connected Box' - Phone number field made longer - Unknown IPCP option problem fixed . . . o Release 0.05 - Fixed some giant bugs concerning IP address negotiation - Changed the ACCM to shifting all control characters, so this version could seem a bit slower . . . I'll fix that later. - Problem with second dialing attempt (the timeout could occur at any time) fixed. - Trapping with full trace fixed. - Corrected problem with the script starting before the connection was stable (right after retrieval of the CONNECT string, without having waiting for DCD). - Pesky IPCP bug search is on. If you experience an "Unknown IPCP option...", mail me for a fix! - Found a bug when selecting port speed. If the speed is reported correctly in the status bar, then you don't have the problem. o Release 0.04 - Fixed timing problems when going from LCP to IPCP. - Fixed a CHAP problem using algorithm's different from 5 - Now you see no hard errors if InJoy cannot open the COM port. - Added netmask setup and support. - Dialing and scripting ready . . . in an early state. - 'Timeout' and 'Timer' functions available . . . in an early state. Both functions includes a warning prior to line drop. - Now beeps when connected and disconnected (unprovoked) - Improved the screen library so mouse works better - Enhanced some negotiation options: For now, InJoy attempts to change the ACCM option to 0, which improves performance, but it can increase the time needed to negotiate a host connection. - Changed the way handling of unsupported CHAP protocols are negotiated. I'll now try to NAK to the normal algorithm MD5. - Added trace date and version to the trace file. - Still have cursor problems in the 'Terminal Mode Window', why? - Hang Up changed so it uses both DTR drop and +++ATH. ATH is only used if DTR drop didn't do the job - And much more. o Release 0.03 - Speed improvement (sometimes doubled, at least when high speed connected, such as ISDN) - Selecting Hang Up no longer changes focus from the 'Terminal Mode Window' - Color improvement of the line usage bar. - The dialing and host setup problems of the first two releases still persist! o Release 0.02 - Tracing made configurable - Line usage monitoring enabled - Domain name server field is now 50 bytes o Release 0.01 - Cursor in 'Terminal Mode Window' is not handled correctly - After changing a configuration, you have to select it before making the changes active o First release (ever) - 'Save as Default' gives the host you are creating the name default - Selecting a host in the 'Host List Box' using the ENTER key while connected to a host, causes a trap. - Cursor in the 'Terminal Mode Window' is always there (even when the window is not active). - 'Your hostname' is not handled correctly. If a correct hostname is essential for you, then make sure to have 'SET HOSTNAME=<your host name>' in your CONFIG.SYS file - After changing a configuration, you have to select it before making the changes active - Selecting Hang Up changes the focus from the 'Terminal Mode Window' ========================================================================== A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S ==============================================Giving Credit Where Due===== I would like to thank all the people who helped during the beta test phase. Without their motivation I would have stopped this long ago. A few of those deserving special recognition for their service are now members of the InJoy Team and more information on them is found on my Web site. See http://www.fx.dk/ And, special thanks to a Net WordSmith (WordSmith@IBM.Net) for his help with the docs. _/\/\/\/\______________________/\/\_________________________ ___/\/\____/\/\/\/\____________/\/\____/\/\/\____/\/\__/\/\_ ___/\/\____/\/\__/\/\__________/\/\__/\/\__/\/\__/\/\__/\/\_ ___/\/\____/\/\__/\/\__/\/\____/\/\__/\/\__/\/\____/\/\/\/\_ _/\/\/\/\__/\/\__/\/\____/\/\/\/\______/\/\/\__________/\/\_ _________________________________________________/\/\/\/\___ ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ Copyright (c) 1998, F/X Communications. All rights reserved.