Topic: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Blade Setup - page 18. (Read 580771 times)

The same stratum proxy that works for Slush' pool will work with any pool that uses stratum, including Eligius.  BFGMiner also has a proxy mode that you can use to connect to stratum pools with your blades.

I still cant figure out what is up with these blades on my work network.
At home they do 10.6gh/s and get there pretty fast.
note: DNS and GATEWAY settings don't matter touching them is being anal, blades make no request to get outside the network so no gateway is needed and they make no ns lookups so dns is not needed. when bouncing off an in network proxy that is.

At work every 40 units receive they flip to the other server address. everything is setup up the same at home, so it has to be something with my network at work.
Anyone have issues using HP 4000m switches with them?
I've run the proxies off windows 7 like at home with no change they stay around 7.8gh/s due to constantly changing servers.
I noticed on the switch it was constantly losing connecting to the blade with its port configured for AUTO, when I downgraded the port to be 10 only it stopped this, but still sits at 7.8gh/s. it takes them like 15minutes or more to get to 7.8gh/s.
I use bfg 32bit proxy for 2 blades and slush proxy for the other. What I am using doesnt matter as both of these used exactly the same mine at 10.6gh/s at home but 7.8gh/s at work.
at work I have 4 wifi routers broadcasting out, turned them all off to see if that was it and still 7.8gh/s. At home I have the blade sitting right in front of a wifi router and it does 10.6gh/s pretty quickly.
Something is causing these blades to lose the server and insist on using the other. I can NOT put duplicate IP's in the server area as the blades will completely stop mining after receiving its initial 40 from the first server. I can not leave one blank as noted will stop working as it thinks it cant find the server anymore and wants to change servers...
What I have done is put 2 ip's in the server area that point to the exact same server, which allows the blades to mine the same proxy but does not resolve the problem of it losing the present server its mining and switching to another.
at home there is no such issues like this, they sit on the first server and never move off it mining at 10.6gh/s.
blah... very annoying. would be nice if these had logging so they would tell u why they think the present server has vanished.
maybe ports changed to half duplex? or flow control? I dunno

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plugged a blade into a smarter newer switch and it reports the blade wants to connect at 10mbs half duplex... which sounds right per its hardware setup...
15   Auto   10M Half   Enable

still switching every 40 aka losing the present mining ip wanting to move to another.

Hi guys sorry if this has already been asked but i want to use Eligius pool but understand from your guide that only slush can easily be used with stratum because its more efficient

Is there any statum proxy exe, similar to the one for slush pool, which works with eligius. I could only find that your basically only able to use getawork protocol is that right? Is there a huge disadvantage to this?

Cheers

I have 10 in a backplane. Each 2 is tied.

With a couple of good fans you don't need to space them and you could cool all 3 with 2 120mm fans(1 in 1 out). Link them all together with a cable tie through the little holes next to the ethernet ports and they would be very stable and cool.

How many blades do you have?

I have 4 total but only 3 are getting hooked into the backplane, not sure how to space them out yet...

i used twistties to bind 2 together. which gives them a bit more stability. and using 2 of the grey molex connectors to hold the psu up so its not leaning forward.
ill be coming with a better solution once i grab the fans. once i do ill post photos/ drawings for others to build their own.

also binding all the ethernet cables towards the middle blade will pull them all together.

So I have a backplane and a few blades, just waiting for the PSU to arrive. I have a small apartment and want to make sure this doesn't get knocked over. The backplane with blades plugged in is a bit less sturdy than I was hoping. Is there a way to use a circuit board standoff to reinforce the blades? Or maybe a certain size threaded pole can run through the hole on each blade?

I was thinking of setting it up on top of a small filing cabinet, with some type of cage or upside down wire basket on top secured to the cabinet. Basically, if I put the cage on top of the backplane rig I can tie fans to all sides of the cage, preferably on the inside, and it should protect things and help with cooling at the same time. No workshop so I need to use off-the-shelf stuff... To secure the cage I'm thinking of using these small adhesive bungee things I bought for cable-management. Also, by "cage" I basically mean any type of wire basket, or maybe even something from a pet store, so long as it's the right size. Time to get creative... But yeah, I'd love to know how to reinforce the blades by using the holes they have, guessing a trip to RadioShack might help for that end of it.

at the moment I have 2 box fans on either side. keeping them cold to the touch. heading out to find some fans this afternoon.

How are you cooling them?
Thanks

Just wanted to post a big THANKS to the OP for his clear and helpful instructions.  I've gotten my newbie ghetto rig up and running in no time.  And luckily, I picked up the blade about a week ago (for about $240) right before prices skyrocketed.



https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43156694/photo.JPG

Cheers mate,

Did you manage to edit your config page?

Congratulations on getting all 10 running rekweam.

You need to add a '://' after 'stratum+tcp', not a dot.

have you been able to get into the blades config?

OK now I am getting tricky with the cmd: line


C:\Program Files\bfgminer-3.6.0-win32>bfgminer.exe --http-port 8000 -o stratum+t
cp.nl1.ghash.io:3334 -u xxxxxxx.worker1 -p 123

returns

[2013-11-25 08:29:26] Most likely you have input the wrong URL, forgotten to ad
 a port, or have not set up workers
[2013-11-25 08:29:26] Pool: 0  URL: http://stratum+tcp.nl1.ghash.io:3334  User:
richg21.worker1  Password: 123
[2013-11-25 08:29:26] Press any key to exit, or BFGMiner will try again in 15s.

[2013-11-25 08:29:42] Pool 0 slow/down or URL or credentials invalid
[2013-11-25 08:29:43] No servers were found that could be used to get work from

[2013-11-25 08:29:43] Please check the details from the list below of the serve
s you have input
[2013-11-25 08:29:43] Most likely you have input the wrong URL, forgotten to ad
 a port, or have not set up workers
[2013-11-25 08:29:43] Pool: 0  URL: http://stratum+tcp.nl1.ghash.io:3334  User:
richg21.worker1  Password: 123
[2013-11-25 08:29:43] Press any key to exit, or BFGMiner will try again in 15s.
  
Well I got bfg miner working for a while but it did not recognize my Blade.  Now I can't get it running because it keeps popping up saying bfgminer.exe is not a valid WIN32 program.  I need to check my syntax.  SO close and yet so far away.

Well I got my 10 working with slush's pool. Yay!

update I double checked my connections against the link you gave above and realized I had the wrong router IP address and got these super fast messages in cmd:

2013-11-25 07:42:59,875 INFO stats stats.print_stats # 1 peers connected, state
changed 1 times
2013-11-25 07:42:59,905 INFO stats stats.print_stats # 2 peers connected, state
changed 1 times
2013-11-25 07:42:59,905 ERROR protocol protocol.dataReceived # Processing of mes
sage failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "stratum\protocol.pyo", line 185, in dataReceived
  File "stratum\protocol.pyo", line 216, in lineReceived
'rotocolException: Cannot decode message 'POST / HTTP/1.1
2013-11-25 07:42:59,905 INFO stats stats.print_stats # 1 peers connected, state
changed 1 times
2013-11-25 07:42:59,921 INFO stats stats.print_stats # 2 peers connected, state
changed 1 times
2013-11-25 07:42:59,937 ERROR protocol protocol.dataReceived # Processing of mes
sage failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "stratum\protocol.pyo", line 185, in dataReceived
  File "stratum\protocol.pyo", line 216, in lineReceived
'rotocolException: Cannot decode message 'POST / HTTP/1.1
2013-11-25 07:42:59,937 INFO stats stats.print_stats # 1 peers connected, state
changed 1 times
2013-11-25 07:43:00,546 INFO proxy client_service.handle_event # New job 2ad8d f
or prevhash ac02eecf, clean_jobs=False

SO now I REALLY want to get BFGminer to work!  I am off to that forum for a while....

Stratum Proxy sort of works.  I had to use "-sh stratum+tcp://nl1.ghash.io -sp 3334" and not "-o stratum+tcp://nl1.ghash.io:3334 in my .bat file."  I think the proxy is talking to the pool but not talking to the Blade.  proxy  returns this

2013-11-25 07:12:31,421 INFO proxy client_service.handle_event # New job 2ad48 f
or prevhash a765a3f0, clean_jobs=False
2013-11-25 07:13:01,358 INFO proxy client_service.handle_event # New job 2ad49 f
or prevhash a765a3f0, clean_jobs=False
2013-11-25 07:13:31,453 INFO proxy client_service.handle_event # New job 2ad4a f
or prevhash a765a3f0, clean_jobs=False
2013-11-25 07:14:01,312 INFO proxy client_service.handle_event # New job 2ad4b f
or prevhash a765a3f0, clean_jobs=False

I did check out that link you suggested.  I need to ponder.  But I think the pool sees me

ID    Completed    Duration    Pool Speed    Your Speed    Difficulty    Shares    Your Score    Rejected    Total Shares
12365   Open   8 minutes   1.48 Ph/s   0 Gh/s   609482679   0   -   0   159035265
12364   2013-11-25 12:08:41   10 minutes   1.44 Ph/s   0 Gh/s   609482679   0   -   0   200000114
12363   2013-11-25 11:58:44   10 minutes   1.48 Ph/s   0 Gh/s   609482679   0   -   0   200000078
12362    2013-11-25 11:49:06    13 minutes    1.06 Ph/s    -    609482679    0    0.000%    0 (0.00%)    200000007
12361    2013-11-25 11:35:36    10 minutes    1.45 Ph/s    -    609482679    0    0.000%    0 (0.00%)    200002025

I went from dash to zero Gh/s!
Now I cannot seem to get bfgminer to work.  Time for more homework.

Take a look at this for help on setting up the proxy..

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/guidehow-to-setup-asicminer-bladescubes-343761