Gajim - 2024-07-21

Is there something to consider when trying to send a file from Gajim to Gajim (both Linux)? I just sent a file, but the recipient tells me he gets no notification or anything. The transfer doesn't work. I see no error message as well.

It's a bigger file, so Gajim tells me that direct transfer will be used.

Maybe some port needs to be accessible on receivers side?

I see this in the debug console: > unable to bind to port 28011

p2p file transfer is not really maintained, so it often does not work

lovetox, okay. Any idea what I could try though?

in ace file_transfers_port

maybe set a different port

I tried debugging this without success. With the first try, there is no such message "unable to bind to port 28011", this only happens when I try again because then the port is already in use. I see that port 28011 is open: ``` # netstat -a | grep 28011 tcp6 0 0 [::]:28011 [::]:* LISTEN ``` But then nothing happens. We both tried opening this port in our FritzBoxes.

I don't know how to go on here further, so I guess it just doesn't work.

Changing the port didn't help either

its maybe a problem with ipv6

i have no idea, and i dont think its a quick fix

i didnt transfer a file p2p since years

I reversed self.ais, so tcp was used, but no...

I think XMPP is a great way to transfer bigger files through the internet between desktop PCs. How do you do that?

i almost never have the need, only within the same LAN and i use a NAS for distributing the files

but i heard of a easy p2p app

Okay, I don't often have the need either, but sometimes...

https://wormhole.app/

Ok, looks good. But can I trust that? It says files will be encrypted and cannot be read by others, but can I be sure?

you can run this locally also

https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

the benefit of the website is, people dont have to install apps

Yes I see that...

It would still be nice if the p2p code in Gajim can be fixed someday.

obviously :)

still its not easy, Gajim only depends on existing technologies, and for example you need to open ports on the machines etc

its hard to make that seemles

without a server

but this app seems really great

> sudo apt install magic-wormhole > wormhole send README.md > wormhole receive

cant get easier than this

How do you define who is the recipient resp. sender?

That xkcd fits perfectly: https://xkcd.com/949/

You don't need to

Send gives you a keyword

That keyword you give the other user

He specifies it when calling receive

There is a relay sever that does the matching

okay, so it is not completely independent. you need this relay server

Yes but I think there is a public one

You don't need to run it yourself

I put 40€ into the pot for fixing p2p in Gajim 😉️

I think with Conversations it works.

https://wormhole.app/roadmap >❓ Let us know what we should work on by joining our Discord server! every single time.

We are just trying wormhole.app and it takes ages. 4,4 GB will probably take until the night if not longer.

with 10 MBit/s upload on my side.

zak: bandwith isn't the bottleneck?

If not, try SyncThing maybe?

I don't know. Shouldn't this be much faster? My netload-plugin tells me I have about 10Mbit/s upload.

> https://wormhole.app/roadmap >>❓ Let us know what we should work on by joining our Discord server! > every single time. more concerning is that they are advertising discord while saying how E2EE file storage is important... ↺

Your fritz box web interfaces should tell you your theoretic maximal connection speeds. Otherwise you could run a simple speed test on both devices, eg zack.avm.de to see what's your up/download bandwith (mind that network load might negatively impact the result) Or use netcat to measure the p2p speed

Yes, it should be 10 Mbit/s and it is 10 Mbit/s.

So everything looks good so far.

👍

Funny: My contact downloaded about 80% of the file already. My upload indicator shows about 30%. ✏

magic

Gajim 1.9.2 is in the Void Linux repos 🎉️

arch linux repo 1.8

shedar: for Arch linux, the one in the `Extra` repo is 1.8.4 But the one in the `Extra-staging` is 1.9.2 You can install it from that repo to have the latest update now https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=gajim

ooo freebsd ports has 1.9.1, for once its ahead of a linux distro O.O

Polarian: freebsd ports actually has 1.9.2 https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/net-im/gajim?id=129f71

hm weird

when I search my local db I get: gajim-1.9.1 GTK Jabber client

likely the binary port hasn't been shipped yet then :)

Perhaps you need to fetch the latest updates from the repo?

> likely the binary port hasn't been shipped yet then :) Unlikely. The commit above was 37 hours ago

I have the latest database