Good evening,
I'm still working out how best to get my MobilePro780 on the internet and wanted to share some thoughts and maybe get some feedback.
So this problem has basically three prongs:
Prong 1:
How to reliably AND securely connect to a router/wifi/whatever
(physical connection
)
Prong 2:
How to simplify the modern internet so an HPC can understand it
(simplify web
)
Prong 3:
How to connect to secure pages on the modern internet
(handle SSL
)
As far as #1, since WPA2 wifi connections are seemingly not possible, we can rule out using a wifi connection over pcmcia card. Generic NE2000 ethernet card works fine, but then you're physically tied to some kind of access point.
There are proxies discussed here in the forums that take care of 2 & 3. I've tried
WRP and
OldSSL-Proxy for this. Both have pluses and minuses. It might sound random but my measure of success is when I can AT LEAST login to HPCFactor and see new threads. I was not able to do that with either of these, although I definitely got to frog find and had a look around the net! Might be others that would work better? Next on my list to try is
Retro-Proxy.
So, one option I was thinking of trying would be to set up a PPP service on my Linux machine and then use an rs232 wifi serial modem to "dial out" to my Linux box
(or maybe a raspi, as suggested by torch
). This would be secure because the wifi serial modem connects using a modern WPA2 connection. Reading forum posts on the subject, it sounds like maybe that would be slow as all get out because of the limitations of the serial port? Anybody doing this with any success?
Another option that is banging around in my brain
(thanks torch
) would be to plug directly into the raspi with an ethernet cable and use it as a bridge. It's not QUITE as good physically, because now you have an extra device AND one of those PCMCIA dongles involved
(my last working one is kinda broken
), but at least it would work. And I guess you could put your proxy server right there on the pi as well
(again, suggested to me by torch!
). I found
these instructions on setting up the bridge. Will probably try that out later.
I guess another option for tackling #'s 2/3 would be to use VNC and just access the pages from a modern browser on the remote machine, but I haven't seen any viewers on the SCL that work on HPC Pro MIPS 2.11
(except maybe
this one?
). I'd have to imagine this would be pretty slow as well.
So, what is everybody else using to get online in 2022?
A few related forum links:
https://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=20376
https://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=20070
https://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=20673
