Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/17
Experience from a friend:
The cause is that the Samsung only does 60Hz on DisplayPort because they do not support HDMI 2.0.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/11
Not sure when this happened but the CIDR list is no more [WayBack] https://www.whatsapp.com/cidr.txt:
Dear partners, Please note that we have migrated the latest IP pools of WhatsApp to Facebook Mobile Partner Portal. Feel free to browse to the Settings page of the portal and download the latest WhatsApp IP pool: https://fb.me/mpp_support Further IP pool updates are also done through the portal and are no longer distributed via email or through WhatsApp web site. If you have not yet registered on the Mobile Partner Portal or have difficulties accessing it - please request access through the following form and we'll be happy to assist: https://fb.me/mpp_access For any technical requests please contact us through the Support section of the portal: https://fb.me/mpp_support WhatsApp team
In the past it was the place to get the CIDR so you could either block or allow WhatsApp traffic: [earlier WayBack]
It is still widely cited as way to regulate WhatsApp traffic, for instance at these places:
Time to find an automated way to get the replacement list. Maybe the below helps (via [WayBack] Block facebook messenger and whatsApp on Dlink router – Super User)
whois -h whois.radb.net '!gAS32934'
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/10
A few things that failed/worked:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Amyuni Technologies\Amyuni PDF Analyzer\_PDFAnalyzer.vb (you can try from www.amyuni.com/…/PDFAnalyzerSetup.exe)I still need to look at the Multivalent.jar when I have a system with Java again, as it is mentioned in [WayBack] pdf generation – Is there a tool to analyze a PDF in terms of fonts, objects, fields and their respective size (kb)? – Stack Overflow
References:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/03
This will come in useful one day:
Notes for monitoring at [WayBack] Multi-WAN – PFSenseDocs: Gateway Groups
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/30
I forgot to document this earlier.
Many Fritz!Box devices cannot be upgraded to recent firmwares. The behaviour differs on hardware revisions of the same model. I’ve seen it happen on Fritz!Box 7360 devices, but others are could be affected too.
You can get the firmware revision using the trick here: FRITZ!Box call http://fritz.box/cgi-bin/system_status.
If your hardware revision is affected, do not expose it to the outside world.
You could still turn it into a local switch though: [WayBack] Convert FRITZ!Box 7360 to Managed Switch (or even Access Point) having it’s own IP address: Setting up the FRITZ!Box as an IP client.
I did this before even discovering about the hardware revision limits as I wanted to keep the full phone history when migrating from ADSL to fiber (which came with a brand new Fritz!Box 7490) and could use the extra LAN ports.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/29
Was working to get fritzcap to emit a list of interfaces so I could specify which one to capture.
For that I needed to parse the output of http://fritz.box/capture.lua which consists of HTML fragments like below.
What I needed was for each consecutive entries of [WayBack] th and first [WayBack] button tags:
th tagvalue attribute of the button tag having a type="submit" attribute and name=start attributeSo before starting to work on it, I created [WayBack] In order to fix #5, print a list of available interfaces to potentially capture from · Issue #6 · jpluimers/fritzcap
The goal was to get a series of key/value pairs:
4-138 = AP2 (2.4 + 5 GHz, ath1) - Interface 1
4-137 = AP2 (2.4 + 5 GHz, ath1) - Interface 0
4-132 = AP (2.4 GHz, ath0) - Interface 1
4-131 = AP (2.4 GHz, ath0) - Interface 0
4-129 = HW (2.4 GHz, wifi0) - Interface 0
4-128 = WLAN Management Traffic - Interface 0a
So I built a class descending from [WayBack] HTMLParser — Simple HTML and XHTML parser that ships with the [WayBack] Python standard libraries.
If in the future I need more complex HTML parsing, then these links will help me choosing more feature rich parsers:
Back to the HTMLParser descendant in interfaces_dumper.py which can basically be condensed down to the code below.
handle_data is called for both start tags and end tags. The th value in data is only present in the start tag (at the time of end tag the data is empty), so you need to keep track of both last_start_tag and last_end_tag.handle_endtag maintains last_end_tag to help handle_data.handle_starttag maintains last_start_tag to help handle_data and also handles the button behaviour.
buttonis only relevant if it has type="submit" and name="start" and a value attribute in that order.data which is an array of key/value pairs.Posted in Development, Fritz!, Fritz!Box, fritzcap, Internet, Power User, Python, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/27
I’m not sure around which firmware versions Fritz!Box started to implement LUA links, but they are now on my research list.
Below a reference and where I found them.
A few notes first:
Logging in programmatically needs a challenge response mechanism. It used to be at [Wayback] http://www.avm.de/de/Extern/Technical_Note_Session_ID.pdf but now has moved to [Wayback/Archive.is] https://avm.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Global/Service/Schnittstellen/AVM_Technical_Note_-_Session_ID.pdf
Here is the list:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/26
Another piece of history: FireWire also known as IEEE-1394 [WayBack].
[WayBack] The tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative tech torpedoed by corporations | Ars Technica
I still have that iPod, cables and IEEE-1394 adapters to communicate with it (:
It didn’t help that by now various types of connections – including FireWire, USB and others – are also used for DMA hacking. One less connection type, one less risk of entry:
via: [WayBack] Firewire and what could have been.. – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+ and [WayBack] Fred Dresken (Maverick) – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/22
One occasion I had SSH throw a Connection Reset by Peer on my when was the SD-card of a Raspberry Pi started failing and the ext4 filesystem got mounted in read-only mode.
Then sshd was still listening on port 22, but since it could not write to disk any more, it threw a Connection Reset by Peer to the client.
It was on OpenSuSE Tumbleweed, but would failed just as well using Raspbian.
Lessons learned:
ext4 breaks when the hardware breaks.–jeroen
Reference:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/22
While researching what the cgi-bin of Fritz!Box devices expose, I found this post on http://fritz.box/cgi-bin/system_status:
[WayBack] FRITZ!Box „Service Code“ auslesen und dekodieren – Antary
FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7390–B–041711–000121–533176–734744–147902–840604–28179–avm
- FRITZ!Box Modell (Name)
- Annex
- Gesamtlaufzeit der Box (Stunden, Tage, Monate, Jahre)
- Neustarts
- Hash
- Status
- Firmwareversion
- Sub-Version
- Branding
The site has the entries colour coded, but WordPress doesn’t allow for that.
I found out that on a Fritz!Box 7490 you do not need to logon, but on a Fritz!Box 7360 you have to.
The site has a few other interesting Fritz!Box posts as well:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 