AmiTCP and IBrowse2.3

[dvvrue95]

Hi folks,
I'm having problems trying to get AmiTCP working with IBrowse.

I was previously using Miami for my TCP/IP and things were working OK after a few weeks tweaking of Miami and Ibrowse! But I couldn't seem to SSL running under Miami and the docs seemed to suggest that it needed a correctly registered version of Miami, so I thought I would give AmiTCP a go.

What happens now is that I can start Amitcp using that run Amitcp:bin/startnet command which appears to make a connection via my Ethernet PCMCIA card (green light on I/F comes on) and port appears to go active on my router. I then start IBrowse but as soon as I try surfing I can see that IBrowse is use cached pages or I rx a "unable to open a bsdsocket library or compatible networking interface". If I then try to start Miami I rx a message indicating that a TCP/IP stack is already running. Also if I try to start Amiga Explorer instead of IBrowse (after running AmiTCP) it looks as if Explorer has detected a TCP/IP session i.e. it seems to using a bsdscoket library ...... but if I start AExplorer on my PC I rx and error message indicating some problem with the TCP/IP session. If I reboot and run Miami both Ibrowse and AExplorer work fine. I must admit I did find the setup of AmiTCP a bit difficult to follow particularly since most of the setting for IP, subnet and gateway are DHCP from my router, so it probably is something to do with the settings I have put in AmiTCP.

Also how do you stop AmiTCP, at the moment I just reboot?

Also can anyone explain why it is that when I start Ibrowse the colours associated with my WB icon names always change to some obscure colour combination?

Hope someone can make sense of this ramble.
Ian

[futaura]

It's true that MiamiSSL needs a registered version of Miami, but that's not a problem - AmiSSL v2 will work fine with Miami, and this is the preferred SSL library for IBrowse.  You just need to set the IB security prefs not to "Use MiamiSSL", after installing AmiSSL v2, of course. Download links and info available at http://www.ibrowse-dev.net/resources.php

As for AmiTCP, yes it does sound like the interface isn't setup correctly.  I don't remember with AmiTCP offers DHCP or not - I think I just set it up to use static addresses from my router.  IIRC, you can stop AmiTCP by sending a Ctrl-C signal to the AmiTCP kernel task, or something like that.

I'm not sure why your WB icon name colours are changing - IBrowse certainly shouldn't interfer there, unless the pens the WB is using are not locked for some reason.  If you are using any third-party programs to customize the WB look, then they could be the problem.

[Hyperspeed]

I think it's best to get Genesis or Roadshow which I believe are based on AmiTCP but more user friendly.

Download this great utility to lock your Workbench palette colours so other ba$tard programs don't steal them:
ftp://de.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/wb/FullPalette22.lha

Might be better to go into MUI Settings-System-Inspector then give IBrowse it's own screen. It can eat as many colours as it likes there!

:-)

[dvvrue95]

Hi,

thanks for your comments. I didn't realize that the AmiSSL files would work with Miami, but as you stated they do. I'm able to establish SSL with IBrowse via Miami.

[dvvrue95]

I've given IBrowse its own screen now and that seems to have overcome my WB colour problem, it also appears to have made Ibrowse a little more "stable". thanks.