cFos 5.0 - Infos und Download

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cFos NT/2000/XP ist ein DSL & ISDN Treiber für Internetzugang und Modem-Software, mit ...
-Firewall
-High-Speed Login & Transfer Optimierung
- 0190er Nummern Blocker
- Anrufmonitor mit Protokollierung und Soundwiedergabe und mehr - lesen Sie weiter im Artikel ... cFos NT/2000/XP ist ein DSL & ISDN Treiber für Internetzugang und Modem-Software, mit Firewall High-Speed Login & Transfer Optimierung 0190er Nummern Blocker Anrufmonitor mit Protokollierung und Soundwiedergabe Zeit-Synchronisation Online Budgetmanagement Datenkompression und Kanalbündelung (CCB) bis zu 32 COM ports, umfangreicher AT Kommandosatz X.75, V.110, V.120, X.31, analoges Modem, FAX AOL, CompuServe, T-Online, CTI, Mailbox ab Windows NT 4.0
Technologie: ISDN, DSL / PPPoE and ATM Download:
cfos-nt-2000-xp-v500.zip   Das ist neu: Please read this list of  changes  and enhancements  carefully,
because we maybe changed some details that might concern you.


To make things a little easier, here's a small legend:

  * New feature
  ! Software-change requires modification of your configuration
  x Bugfix
  - Information only



Revision history: ----------------------------------------------



cFos/Win 5.00, 05-Feb-2003
cFos/NT  5.00, 05-Feb-2003

  ! cFos Traffic Shaping!  Surf the web faster with less
    latency with cFos Traffic Shaping. For details, see
    http://www.cfos.de/techinfo/shape.htm

  * Drag and Drop of keyfile from your mail program to cFos status
    window.

  * Firewall improvement with FTP transfers: FTP servers often try
    to IDENT connecting machines (i.e. they try to connect to your
    IDENT services).  Those requests are, if they are blocked by the
    firewall, often repeated like 4 times, delaying FTP server login
    for e.g. some 4 seconds.  cFos now rejects the IDENT connection,
    if there is a FTP control connection to the same host running at
    the same time, resulting in a faster FTP login.
    
  * The Firewall is now keeping state of TCP connections.  This
    allows cFos to do "Port stealthing"!  I.e. if someone is trying
    to connect to your computer, but the respective port is not in
    listen state, the remote machine does not receive a RST segment.
    I.e. the remote machine does not know that your computer even
    exists!  Only if the port exists and is in listen state (i.e.
    you are offering a server to the net) incoming connections will
    result in packets beeing sent to the net.

    The same holds true for UDP ports: if a remote machine tries to
    connect to one of you UDP ports currently not in listen state,
    it will not receive negative feedback, effectively "stealthing"
    this port.

  * Refinement for S86 TX inactivity timer: data that is sent by
    your computer as an automated response without any useful
    payload (like PING replies and the like) and data that is
    filtered out by cFos Firewall will no longer keep the
    inactivity timer alive.

    If you use inactivity timers to disconnect your PC from the
    Internet we recommend using S86 instead of S19 or S85, because
    S86 keeps working even with the constant bombardment of eDonkey
    (or the like) connection attempts or other people trying to
    get into your PC.
    
  * cFos now has the ability to synchronize your computer's clock
    with time servers on the Internet!

    If you select "Time Sync" in SETUP, cFos will try to get the
    correct time at least 18 hours after the last timesync.  It
    will try do so automatically 10 seconds after you logged on
    to the Internet.  You have a context menu option to do it
    manually, too.

    cFos has built-in lists of free timeservers for each
    geographical location, but if you want to use a specific
    server, set the TimeServer= variable in the [cFos] section of
    CFOS.INI to the name of that server and cFos will use only
    this.

    cFos has (for some time now) the ability to sync your
    computer's clock with ISDN time, too.  It will use both time
    sync possibilities if it can.  E.g., if you get ISDN time
    infos every 12 hours, Internet time sync will never be used.

    If ISDN Time-Sync and Internet Time-Sync work against one
    another, you can disable either of them: -ji to disable ISDN
    time-sync, -jn to disable Internet time-sync.  Set the
    switches in the Parameter line in SETUP.
   
  * cFos can reduce the MTU on PPPoE connections with a setting of
    register S99.  Either use S99=<MTU in your init string or use
    -x99=<MTU in the parameter line of cFos Setup (replace <MTU
    with the MTU number). 

    To maximize data thruput cFos/Win must make changes to the
    IPMTU setting in the registry.  Set the -km switch in Setup
    to disable these changes to the registry.

    cFos checks now to see the minimum MRU advertised by either
    side and uses the smaller value as MTU.  This way, you
    don't have to set -x99 even if your ISP requires smaller MRUs
    because of further tunnelling.  This works as long as the ISPs
    dialin host tries to negotioate this smaller MRU.  If it does
    not, you need to use -x99 feature mentioned above.

  * You can now allow / ignore calls with certain caller IDs.
    Default is to allow all calls. If you'd like to limit the
    calls cFos listens to to a certain set of caller IDs, you can
    create a section [callerid] in the CFOS.INI file. In this
    section you can specify include= and exclude= keys. On an
    incoming call, cFos scans through this [callerid] section and
    allows / disallows a certain caller ID whenever it matches with
    a key. The character * indicates that the reminder of the
    number is not used for a match. Example:

    [callerid]
    exclude=*    ; exclude all numbers
    include=0228*    ; but allow all calls from Bonn
    exclude=0228555*    ; but exclude calls from these numbers
    include=0405551234    ; and allow one certain number from Hamburg

    You could, for example, use cFos in combination with a
    remote control software and only allow certain users with
    fixed caller IDs to dial into the computer and do remote
    maintenance. This adds one more layer of security.

  * You can now dump all data that is sent to resp. received from
    your ISDN board resp. your DSL modem.  The switches -dp (put,
    i.e. sent) and -dg (get, i.e. receive) switch this kind of
    logging on.  Output goes into CTRACE.TXT.

  * Redirected ISDN calls are now indicated as such in the cFos
    caller monitor window.

  * New cFos Skin, optimized for the look and feel of Windows XP.

  * Skins now support indication of PPP login states and firewall
    activity, Skin monitor windows can inidicate redirected calls.

  * Added alpha-blending support fuer the skins, see skin.htm for
    details.

  * Skins now support color transformation to easily create
    variations of existing skins. See skin.htm for details.

  * Connection Reports are now generated out of report.tpl and
    report_e.tpl, which are actually html. So you can design your
    own connection reports now, using most of the skin variables.

  * You can specify the budget to use in the phone number you dial:
    include "=<budget" (sans quotes) in the number, where <budget
    may be 0 to disabled budget, 1-9 for budgets 1 to 9 or 'a' for
    budget 10. Example: "ATD=15551234" will dial 5551234 and use
    budget 1; "ATD5551234=A" will dial the same number, but use
    budget 10 instead.

  * You want to prioritize some UDP or TCP ports?  Use
    FastOutUdpSport, FastOutUdpDport, FastOutTcpSport,
    FastOutTcpDport to prioritize UDP or TCP packets with
    the respective source port number (Sport) or destination port
    number (Dport) with TX CTS.  May be useful for e.g. online
    games.  The settings have to be in the [cts] section of
    cfos.ini and can hold multiple values each, spaced by spaces
    or commas, like:
       [cts]
       fastoutudpdport=9990 9991

  * Display the amount of remaining inactivity time by setting
    S74.14=1.  It is displayed in the position of the connect
    charges.

  * You can now set bits in S-registers on the command line with
    -x<reg.<bit=<v, where <reg is the number of the register,
    <bit the bit number and <v either 0 or 1.  E.g. -x74.14=1
    will activate the display of inactivity time.

  - ISDN time info is now a global value, instead of a port-
    specific value. This could help determining if you get
    ISDN time info messages from CAPI / Telco.

  x Bugfixes in Skin-Support and Connection Report.



cFos/Win

  * You can call CFOSDW.EXE with -s[n]<x parameter to display
    one or all status windows. -sn means don't close after 5 secs.
    <x is the window number, 0=first COM port, 1=next COM port,...
    highest number is caller monitor window. Leaving out <x opens
    all windows.


cFos/NT

  * The Shareware version will now work even if no user is logged
    on to the computer.  The registered version always did.

  * Removed the Start/Stop service and Quit status window entries
    from the context menu.  Only if the startmode is set to manual
    or the service in not running yet, the appropriate entries are
    displayed.

  * Under XP the ballon tip with the logon message sometimes stays
    active for minutes.  cFos now closes the ballon tip after 15
    seconds or after the amount of milliseconds mentioned in the
    LogonBallonTime setting in the [cfos] section in cfos.ini.

  * You can stop the CFOSDNT.EXE now by starting "CFOSDNT -d".