Does that mean you now have BFG working for you as a proxy server, and now your cubes are humming along?

I've got the stratum running on a RPi.

Keep forgetting to mention that the RPi has both a wifi adapter and is plugged into the router. If I remove either of these the cube stops hashing. If I only have one of the RPi's ips as my pools the cube stops hashing.

I've tried pointing the cube at one of my macs running the proxy but it won't connect.

I'll try bfgminer on the RPi in a couple of hours.

Is the original stratum proxy the problem: with 1 cube it still work, with more the cpu can't handle the load

THIS!

ftw

Evening All,

I'm after some advise on how I can get my cube to successfully mine on two separate pools, as in the primary/backup function, so if one looses connectivity or times out for any reason, it switches to the other pool.

I am currently mining on Slush's pool and another pool using a windows 7 64bit laptop as a proxy machine and am using mining_proxy.exe in order to do so, if I want to mine on the other pool I just open up the command prompt, navigate to the mining proxy directory and execute the following command
mining_proxy.exe -o (host) -p (port)

My cube is setup with the standard settings with the ports being 8332, 8332, pool address being the IP address of my proxy machine and the username and password of my pool worker credentials.

I have tried to use cgminer and bfg miner on numerous occasions but have been unsuccessful in making them work for me.

Yesterday I downloaded the latest cgminer 3.90 but after entering my pool address:port and leaving the username and password blank and hitting enter, the program would encounter a problem and shutdown, I tried again but this time I populated the username and password fields but I encountered the same problem.

bfg miner seems to get me to a page where I can start tinkering with some settings but always says that no devices were found, once I've managed to get it connected to a pool I think and it said something along the lines of "pool is hiding blocks", or something along those lines.

So now, as proxy miner seems to be the only one working for me, is their any way for me to set it up to achieve my purpose?

Also what does diff 64, 128 and 256 mean? The other pool that I am on offers me various different ports to choose from with the options of diff 64, 128 or 256.

Thanks in advance for your time and help.

Interesting, never knew this... But can one windows machine run multiple Slush proxies? I never had success opening two, only tried one time thinking it might distribute work evenly. I checked the thread you linked and saw what looked like scary Linux stuff, is that the only way?

Thanks Stew - looks like it's helping me get another 5% since I had so many cubes sharing the same proxy.  Definitely appreciated!

I'm not very skilled with writing .bat files, I know how to do it for bfgminer, but not Slush's Proxy tool. Can you paste a sample of what this might look like? I thought Slush's tool only worked on 8332...

Edit: Okay, I got a .bat file written that launches it, and it seems the port switch is "-p", but I can't seem to get it to talk to Slush's server. Is there a way to run stratum proxy for Slush but use a port other than 8332?

Right now both blades are running on 1 proxy, using port 8332. I've got the .bat file halfway there, it opens but can't connect...

any other PSU besides 800W Corsair GS recommended I cant find that one in stock. I want tot power 2 cubes.

Wow, thanks! I'll try this out now! I believe the "--quiet" option cuts out the message scrolling, right?


EDIT: Okay, seems to be working, only thing is the --help option didn't work out, window just opened then closed immediately when I did that. I added the quiet switch, seems to cut down the messaging. Thanks again.