Lan Network Chat Software 11
Viviano Dean
I want to be able to create a private wifi only network that is not connected to the internet at all, and allow users to communicate on that private network with their phones. The use-case for this is out camping where there is no cell service.
My big concerns are:
-can users sign up on the fly?
-is there a push notification option for the Android/iOS apps (I believe those apps are in beta)? and if so, could it be hosted on the same private server?
Mattermost can work on an air gaped network.
Yes, users can signup on the fly, but account creation needs to happen via the web interface.
You can host your own push notification proxy server, but for push communications to work the server needs internet access to talk to Apple and Google push servers. Also, in general, for cell phones to receive a push notification they must be connected to the internet.
The tool needs to be free, initially, as it is an x-ray of the network, to deliver a report to the client. The best recommendation I've received so far was OpenVAS, does anyone here know another tool?
Network Hosts can turn off Private Chat for all members in the Mighty Network. If you disable this option, you will still receive Space Chat notifications, but the "+" icon to create new private chats will be removed.
You will see a new option under Network Settings > Members > Member Communication called Member Control of Private Chat. The default will be set to off, but turning it on will allow members, Hosts or moderators the option to decide if they want to receive direct messages or not.
However the UCCX 11.6(2) design guide states that NAT is not supported. The UCCX port utilisation guide shows that https (TCP 443) traffic must be allowed from users on the Internet initiating chat sessions to the SocialMiner server I am struggling to see how this can work.
Yes NAT is not supported, I have done a deployment where we have used a Web proxy like Sophos or Netscaler, so the end customer on the internet will only be talking to our Web proxy gateway not directly to a host sitting in the internal network/DMZ and we can make use of the security certs that are provided by the Web proxy server. This is the best way to deploy it, if your customer have a Web proxy set up.
This means that for this deployment the SM server will have to be placed on the public Internet as the customer does not have a DMZ that uses public addresses. The also have security concerns about hosting a VM on the external Internet on the same ESXi host that they use to host "normal" DMZ servers.
Thanks for your response. The deployment I am involved with is just a proof of concept of web-chat but email will be a production service. It think I will find it very difficult to persuade the customer to deploy a web proxy server just for this test.
Webchat do support NAT, i have 2 customers with private IPs on the DMZ and NAT on the Outside Firewall and it works, one in 11.0.1 and 10.6.1 but i dont believe Cisco changed this on the last versions.
The scenrio that was implemented on the 11.0.1 included a specific situation with NAT reflection on the Firewall because internaly the DNS resolves the public IP and the socialminer has a private IP, and was validated by Cisco BU.
I'm trying to configure SocialMiner (11.6) with FB chat and webchat. Customer has a WAF (with reverse proxy functionality) and have to use this for chat integrations, as the Social Miner server is deployed in DMZ. Asked security team to allow to :10443/fbm via WAF and fb integration is complete.
However I'm not sure how to allow webchat from WAF (reverse Proxy), since there's not specific URL like in facebook integration. How did you get webchat allowed (both 7071/7443 ?) from reverse proxy side ?
LAN Chat Messenger defined as an instant messaging application used within office local area network (LAN). As external users cannot access LAN, the office chat will be more secure in LAN Chat Messenger than public messenger.
Output LAN Chat Messenger offers internal office chat over the LAN without internet connection. It has a number of amazing features including One-to-One Chat, Group Chat, Announcement, File Transfer, Remote Desktop and Screen Sharing etc.
Output Messenger offers On-Premises Chat Server application which can be installed in any Windows system with-in your LAN.
The Client Messenger application setup should be installed in all network Clients desktop. The LAN instant Messenger clients will connect with our self-hosted chat server application & the communication will happen with-in your LAN.
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels,[1] but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages[2] as well as chat and data transfer,[3] including file sharing.[4]
IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in August 1988 to replace a program called MUT (MultiUser Talk) on a BBS called OuluBox at the University of Oulu in Finland, where he was working at the Department of Information Processing Science. Jarkko intended to extend the BBS software he administered, to allow news in the Usenet style, real time discussions and similar BBS features. The first part he implemented was the chat part, which he did with borrowed parts written by his friends Jyrki Kuoppala and Jukka Pihl. The first IRC network was running on a single server named tolsun.oulu.fi.[7] Oikarinen found inspiration in a chat system known as Bitnet Relay, which operated on the BITNET.[8]
Jyrki Kuoppala pushed Oikarinen to ask Oulu University to free the IRC code so that it also could be run outside of Oulu, and after they finally got it released, Jyrki Kuoppala immediately installed another server. This was the first "IRC network". Oikarinen got some friends at the Helsinki University and Tampere University to start running IRC servers when his number of users increased and other universities soon followed. At this time Oikarinen realized that the rest of the BBS features probably would not fit in his program.[7]
In August 1990, the first major disagreement took place in the IRC world. The "A-net" (Anarchy net) included a server named eris.berkeley.edu. It was all open, required no passwords and had no limit on the number of connects. As Greg "wumpus" Lindahl explains:[9] "it had a wildcard server line, so people were hooking up servers and nick-colliding everyone". The "Eris Free Network", EFnet, made the eris machine the first to be Q-lined (Q for quarantine) from IRC. In wumpus' words again:[9] "Eris refused to remove that line, so I formed EFnet. It wasn't much of a fight; I got all the hubs to join, and almost everyone else got carried along." A-net was formed with the eris servers, while EFnet was formed with the non-eris servers. History showed most servers and users went with EFnet. Once A-net disbanded, the name EFnet became meaningless, and once again it was the one and only IRC network.[7]
Around that time IRC was used to report on the 1991 Soviet coup d'tat attempt throughout a media blackout.[10] It was previously used in a similar fashion during the Gulf War.[11] Chat logs of these and other events are kept in the ibiblio archive.[12]
Another fork effort, the first that made a lasting difference, was initiated by "Wildthang" in the United States in October 1992. (It forked off the EFnet ircd version 2.8.10). It was meant to be just a test network to develop bots on but it quickly grew to a network "for friends and their friends". In Europe and Canada a separate new network was being worked on and in December the French servers connected to the Canadian ones, and by the end of the month, the French and Canadian network was connected to the US one, forming the network that later came to be called "The Undernet".[7]
In May 1993, RFC 1459[13] was published and details a simple protocol for client/server operation, channels, one-to-one and one-to-many conversations.[7] A significant number of extensions like CTCP, colors and formats are not included in the protocol specifications, nor is character encoding,[14] which led various implementations of servers and clients to diverge. Software implementation varied significantly from one network to the other, each network implementing their own policies and standards in their own code bases.
During the summer of 1994, the Undernet was itself forked. The new network was called DALnet (named after its founder: dalvenjah), formed for better user service and more user and channel protections. One of the more significant changes in DALnet was use of longer nicknames (the original ircd limit being 9 letters). DALnet ircd modifications were made by Alexei "Lefler" Kosut. DALnet was thus based on the Undernet ircd server, although the DALnet pioneers were EFnet abandoners. According to James Ng, the initial DALnet people were "ops in #StarTrek sick from the constant splits/lags/takeovers/etc".[7]
DALnet quickly offered global WallOps (IRCop messages that can be seen by users who are +w (/mode NickName +w)), longer nicknames, Q:Lined nicknames (nicknames that cannot be used i.e. ChanServ, IRCop, NickServ, etc.), global K:Lines (ban of one person or an entire domain from a server or the entire network), IRCop only communications: GlobOps, +H mode showing that an IRCop is a "helpop" etc. Much of DALnet's new functions were written in early 1995 by Brian "Morpher" Smith and allow users to own nicknames, control channels, send memos, and more.[7]
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