[OpenAFS-devel] Automated loopback adapter adding (on Windows)

[Ben Creech]

Thanks, I think I'll modify it to make it accept other IP addresses.  I had 
originally decided it wouldn't be worth the time (for my site) to redo 
devcon.exe.  However, since you've already done the work...

--On Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:42 PM -0700 Dobes Vandermeer 
<dobes@dobesland.com> wrote:

>
> I've got a C++ version of this we've used for our project, it doesn't
> use devcon; devcon isn't legally redistributable :( but it calls the
> same function(s) devcon would so it *is* redistributable.
>
> It needs some headers from the DDK and links with setupapi.lib,
> wbemuuid.lib and the basic windows libs.  Those headers cannot be
> redistributed either, so you'll have to get a DDK to compile this.
> Luckily you can redistribute the resulting binary.
>
> It configures the loopback adapter with 192.168.254.254/255.255.255.0.
> This is hardcoded right now, as I haven't really bumped into any
> conflicts and our installer doesn't ask the user about it.  If the user
> wishes, he can modify the IP by changing the properties on the adapter
> using the windows UI, after all.  If you are doing an automated install,
> you can either recompile it with a new IP or a command-line parser.
>
> I've been waiting until I "spruced it up" before submitting it, and of
> course never did.  So here's the source; if you want a binary (its 70k
> zipped if I include the binary, and I didn't want to spam the list) I
> can send that to whoever requests it.
>
> If you do make use of it, please submit bugs back to me...
>
> Ben Creech wrote:
>>
>> As previously mentioned on these lists, putting the Windows OpenAFS
>> Client on the Microsoft Loopback adapter may make it less error-prone.
>> Thanks to Scott Williams' patch in 1.2.8+, the client will automatically
>> bind to it if it's installed.
>>
>> However, installing the loopback adapter is somewhat troublesome to
>> automate.  I figured I'd make public the thing I just made for an AD
>> domain here:
>> <http://www4.ncsu.edu/~bpcreech/loopback/>
>>
>> This isn't exactly tested in a production environment yet, so ymmv, etc.
>> It has worked so far on all the Win2k and XP boxes I've tested it on.
>> Don't know (or care) if it runs on anything less.
>>
>> For more info, look here:
>> <http://grand.central.org/twiki/bin/view/AFSLore/WindowsLoopBackAdapter>
>>
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