FAH weird assignment

October 7, 2019

For this months challenge I installed FAH-Client 7.5.1 on multiple machines.

On the ones I connected to the internet via android tethering, I get this weird WU assignment.
Somehow the Work Assignment server misdirects my local client installation to the gateway IP address of my phone.

A reinstall didn't help, I hope that somebody here can assist.

Gorgon · October 7, 2019

1 hour ago, SkyFall said:

For this months challenge I installed FAH-Client 7.5.1 on multiple machines.

On the ones I connected to the internet via android tethering, I get this weird WU assignment.
Somehow the Work Assignment server misdirects my local client installation to the gateway IP address of my phone.

A reinstall didn't help, I hope that somebody here can assist.

About the only thing I can think is perhaps you've configured the IP of your android device as the proxy in the Folding Client.

Can you provide the contents of your Folding@Home config file located at: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\FAHClient\config.xml removing or starring-out your passkey and any other personally-identifiable information?

Can you show cut-and-paste the output of "ipconfig /all" run in a Command Prompt so we can see your network settings?

October 8, 2019

17 hours ago, Gorgon said:

About the only thing I can think is perhaps you've configured the IP of your android device as the proxy in the Folding Client.

Can you provide the contents of your Folding@Home config file located at: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\FAHClient\config.xml removing or starring-out your passkey and any other personally-identifiable information?

Can you show cut-and-paste the output of "ipconfig /all" run in a Command Prompt so we can see your network settings?

Shame on me, I was mistaken by the IP address.
Somehow I didn't look at it carefully and assumes it read 192.168.2.1 instead of 192.0.2.1
So this actually is not a private IP address that could be used as a gateway.

over on the foldingforum, I got the information that this could be related to my GPU not being supported due to the lack of double precision capabilities.
Link: https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=106&t=31905

However, I find this behaviour by FAH servers very strange and I hope that this behaviour will be replaced by something more useful.
Like a message or log entry stating that the GPU is unsupported instead of being put in a loop where the machine constantly tries to reach a server that's not responding.

Gorgon · October 8, 2019

9 hours ago, SkyFall said:

Shame on me, I was mistaken by the IP address.
Somehow I didn't look at it carefully and assumes it read 192.168.2.1 instead of 192.0.2.1
So this actually is not a private IP address that could be used as a gateway.

over on the foldingforum, I got the information that this could be related to my GPU not being supported due to the lack of double precision capabilities.
Link: https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=106&t=31905

However, I find this behaviour by FAH servers very strange and I hope that this behaviour will be replaced by something more useful.
Like a message or log entry stating that the GPU is unsupported instead of being put in a loop where the machine constantly tries to reach a server that's not responding.

It’s an honest mistake. The lower part of the 192.0.0.0/8 addresses which were reserved were only released a few years ago by ARIN as public addresses.