as requested from several users, XBSlink is now additionally functional as a command line (non-GUI) application 🙂 the same executable is used for the GUI and non-GUI mode

Changelog:

• XBSlink works on command line (non-GUI) !!
• added user list to chat pane
• fixed issue#5: thread safety in node class for device list
• periodic updated of users in connected cloud
• added platform specific program update checks
• fixed exception on non number chars in setting number fields
• xbs_settings now thread safe
• added NDesk.Options class for command line parsing
• added xbs_messages class for all internal messages
• moved all GUI code from classes into Form

see more for command line parameters:

running XBSlink in command line mode the following commands are available:

• press “h” to display the help message
• press “q” to quit program
• press “l” to display the cloud list
• press “u” to show the list of connected nodes

command line parameters:

XBSlink Version 0.9.2.0
Usage: XBSlink.exe [-h] [-l] [-s CLOUDSERVER] [-c CLOUDNAME] [-u] [-p PORT] -n NICKNAME -o IP -i CAPTURE_DEVICE_NAME
-?, -h, –help             show this help message
-l, –list-devices         list all available network packet capture devices
-n, –nickname=VALUE       set the nickname
-s, –cloudserver=VALUE    set cloudserver URL
-j, –list-clouds          list available clouds on cloudserver
-c, –cloudname=VALUE      connect to this cloud
-m, –max-nodes=VALUE      maximum clients in cloud. default is 10
-w, –password=VALUE       set password for cloud
-u, –upnp                 use UPnP to forward incoming port
-a, –advanced-broadcast   enable advanced forwarding of broadcasts
-p, –port=VALUE           set the incoming port number. default is 31415
-o, –source-ip=VALUE      bind to this local ip address.
-i, –capture-device=VALUE name of network device for capturing packets