Access PPC web server from desktop?

[Markus Oliver Junginger]

Our product is basically a web server running on PPC. In order to do
some stress testing, we would like to use tools available on Win32.

Thus, we need to talk IP to the PPC from the desktop PC.
How do we that?

Thanks,
Markus

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

Put a network card in it, give it an IP and voila - it magically works like
any other device on the network.

-Chris

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[Markus Oliver Junginger]

Chris Tacke, eMVP wrote:
> Put a network card in it, give it an IP and voila - it magically works like
> any other device on the network.

Do you think there's no way to do it over the cradle and maybe ActiveSync?

Thanks,
Markus

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

Doubtful. ActiveSync isn't a full router, so I don't think TCP requests can
get routed to the device.

-Chris

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[Markus Oliver Junginger]

Chris Tacke, eMVP wrote:

> Doubtful. ActiveSync isn't a full router, so I don't think TCP requests can
> get routed to the device.

Okay, maybe ActiveSync is a dead end here. Maybe VPN, IrDa, whatever
may be better key words to trigger creative minds? ;)

However, there's some evidence it should work - at least linux guys get
it to work:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Infrared-HOWTO/infrared-howto-s-pocketpc-connection.html

Thanks,
Markus

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

They're actually using ActiveSync - I can tell by the IP. It's routable
from the actual connector, but the IP is invalid elsewhere.

-Chris

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[John Spaith [MS]]

Active Sync ("AS" in snipped below) can be convinced into proxying TCP
requests. I don't know which versions of AS this applies to.

Here's part a mail I have from dev who owned this a long time ago on how to
do this:
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You can add an entry to the registry to establish a well known port which
will be proxy-ed back to the device. When the device is connected via AS,
AS will bind to the port, and forward connect requests to the device.
The key is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows CE Services\ProxyPorts
The registry entries just have to be REG_DWORD, with any name you like.

This will allow you to "connect(localhost, <your port number>)", and reach
the device.
>

Note that the client connect() MUST come from the XP device running Active
Sync itself. AS will not route requests from machines outside the network
onto this box. Also note that if you have IIS running on your local XP box,
you need to turn it off so that ActiveSync can grab port 80. You may have
to restart ActiveSync and/or reboot your machine to make this change take
affect.

--
John Spaith
Software Design Engineer, Windows CE
Microsoft Corporation

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