[Sugar-devel] SoAS Testing with XS

[Walter Bender]

My laptop (jhbuild) and Classmate (running the same Strawberry version of
SoaS) both connected to the jabber server and were stable on the same
network as the other machines.

-walter

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:

> On 9 Jul 2009, at 00:13, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> > Specifically for the GPA
> >
> > We have 18 computers. Wired to the internet, we don't know the
> > details.  We are trying to bring in another computer, install the XS
> > for it and put it beside the existing computers.
> >
> > For this summer we would be thrilled if we could get the computer
> > lab collaborating in anyway and see three paths that might lead us
> > to success.
> >
> >       • Fix Jabber collaboration - We have a mysterious bug (that is also
> > being worked on in parallel) that keeps dropping the connection to
> > the externally hosted Jabber Server (jabber.sl.org) and we wondered
> > if a local XS would work better.
>
> To me that sounds like the school is (perhaps wisely) blocking ports
> they think are unnecessary for security reasons in a school full of
> Windows based machines. Are any of your own machines showing stable
> connection to jabber.sl.org while on their network?
>
> If it is port blocking at the school, there are some tricks that allow
> you to redirect arbitrary traffic over an open port (likely port 80
> for http if the school is allowing direct internet access), but you'd
> need to tweak each Soas install and the remote server running jabber.
> And there's still the chance that the school filtering might be more
> advanced and be introspecting and filtering packets at a lower level
> than just port numbers.
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
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