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InstantSupport - Not Auto Switching between WAN and LAN

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mellik
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InstantSupport - Not Auto Switching between WAN and LAN

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I have noticed that the InstantSupport.exe once compiled does not auto switch between the WAN and LAN address with port information when ran. I monitored it through Process Explorer and only goes through the WAN option. Also, there were only 2 options Install as Serivce and Disable UAC. I went ahead and modifed the InstantSupport.au3 file to contain 2 other options...Install as Service (LAN) and ReRun InstantSupport (LAN). Not sure why the auto-switching is not working, but here is a work around that I made if anyone would like to try it out and let me know.

I am new to this... not sure if you can upload files to here, but apparently you can't. So I will provide a download from my website.

Thanks all! 8)

http://www.kerrnet-technologies.com/dow ... upport.zip
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Re: InstantSupport - Not Auto Switching between WAN and LAN

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InstantSupport.au3 counts on a popup window to show that the WAN connection has failed before switching to the LAN mode. This popup window comes from (I think) winvnc.exe but it does not seem to popup reliably (at least for me).

Your additions to allow a manual switch seem like a good idea.

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Re: InstantSupport - Not Auto Switching between WAN and LAN

Post by supercoe »

As JonD stated InstantSupport relies on the "Initiate Connection" popup window from the UltraVNC server.

I've done some testing since people were having problems with this and it appears that unless the WAN IP is set to a DNS name it won't appear.

Could you let me know if you are using a physical address (ex: 192.168.1.50) or a DNS name (ex: repeater.no-ip.com) for the WAN address?

I've been doing some sockets coding so in the future InstantSupport will be able to check for the repeaters existence by itself instead of relying on UltraVNC errors.

Great mod in the mean time! Open source is awesome for stuff like this. :D
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Re: InstantSupport - Not Auto Switching between WAN and LAN

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JonD and supercoe, Thanks for the updates! For the WAN IP I was using a DNS name and for the LAN IP just plain IP address. Like you mentioned about sockets, I may start tinkering around with that as well. I have not coded since 2003, still a little rusty. My main focus has been Cisco networking. I will keep you posted on any other changes I make.
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