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Small Bugfix Release

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:19:40 +0000

Recently some nasty bugs have been reported which I found critical enough to not wait for the next major release to fix them.
First of all the scramble function did not work correctly – this is also a bit due to the fact that this function has still a very limited use the way it is implemented. I plan to add additional options like bit error rate or similar in one of the next releases.
The other problem fixed is that deleting functions does not transport the state in the kernel driver directly (you need to wait for the next update of the parameters e.g. when updating a setting of another function). As usual you can find the new bugfix release in the download section.

Have fun….

Hooray WANulator 2.0 is online

admin — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:01:10 +0000

First of all thanks a lot for all the feedback I got for the beta versions. I did some cleanup and fixed the issues which have been introduced with the save-file and script options of RC4 (there might be still some trouble with the scripting features so please let me know if you have this successfully tested in a more complicated script set-up – I would be especially interessted if someone has setups with (scripted) changing simulation parameters over a longer test periods). Unfortunately the documentation still needs some rewrite. So until I find some time to fix it this may be an additional usability test . Obviously feedback and suggestions are always highly appreciated.

P.S. for a full list of features please have a look in the release-notes or in the announcements of the older release candidates.

RC4 uploaded for testing

admin — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:19:03 +0000

Hello, just uploaded RC4. The main change was the commandline option (-F filename) to start WANulator from commandline with an existing configuration file. I included this option mainly to allow scripting – maybe I will also add a non-gui version later if using WANulator from scripts becomes more popular . Looking forward to your feedbak…

New Web Pages

admin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:53:16 +0000

I guess it is more than obvios that for the release of WANulator 2 I also changed the CMS system (from etomite to wordpress). For the moment I just copied the content – so there is still some work to…

Version 2.0 Release Candidate Available

wanulator — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:27:27 +0000

After a long time I am happy to present a new version of WANulator. As announced before this is a complete rewrite of the whole SW. Also the Linux distribution WANulator is based on has been changed to Ubuntu. Here is a short overview of the changes:

WANulator now based on QT main focus on extensible SW_architecture and better user experience.
Now XML based configuration of WANulator functions for scripting
Filter configuration is now also XML based and can be easily updated
Non-gui mode for using WANulator in scripts (will be in final version)
Based on Ubuntu 11.04 and Linux Kernel 2.6.38

For a full list of features plese see the Release notes. I hope you like the interface changes. As usual any feedback, comments or feature ideas are highly appreciated.

Switched Linux distribution

admin — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:48:30 +0000

As mentioned some time ago I was looking for a better solution to build the WANulator live CDs. SLAX WANulator was originally based on is unfortunately not maintained very well. Thus I was not able to update especially for support of new HW in the kernel regulary. After a few experiences with Puppy Linux I eventually used ubuntu-mini-remix in combination with UCK scripts. Unfortunately the download size doubled – which I hope to be able to fix when I find time to strip down the image a bit more. I found the guide provided by Fabrizio quite usefull.

Going to the CCC camp 2011

admin — Wed, 25 May 2011 10:46:03 +0000

I guess as anyone expected you will find me on the CCC Camp 2011 on maybe the best campground I can imagine for an event like this in Finowfurt, Germany. If you are interrested to meet me for a chat feel free to drop by at the Neighbourhood Nerds village. I hope to find some free time there to release the first beta version of the complete code rewrite which is almost finished.

Download on Heise

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:09:49 +0000

The latest version of Wanulator (v1.1) is now also available for download from heise.de. As I got some complaints of low download speeds especially from overseas this may be a faster alternative.

Work in Progress

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:16:04 +0000

I was never too happy with the WANulator SW architecture. Many ideas and features I hesitated implementing because of that. So eventually I decided to rewrite most of the code (I guess the message is that it may take a while for the next release but its going to be a major step ). I also consider the Linux distribution used for WANulator beeing part of the facelift. The main reason is that upgrading to new versions of Slax Linux was always an extremely time-consuming task – especially as many packages were not well maintained. The best candidate as a replacement so far is puppy linux - especially for its flexibility and convenient install scripts for various setups and customizations. If you are intrested you can download a (pretty much untested) sneak preview which is based on puppy linux and the latest WANulator (still baesd on the old architecture). If you find problems and issues with the puppy version please drop me a line.