How to setup stratum with pushpool and VARDIFF?

[thisway]

I'm trying to setup a pool for litecoin mining with support of the stratum protocol and VARDIFF (variable difficulty).

I managed to setup pushpool and everthing is running quite well (at least I can see CGminer connected and doing something).

I'm just stuck in setting up startum and VARDIFF. I was searching through boards, but I can not find anything that is related to my problem. The only approach I read on bitcointalk was to use

Code:

"rpc.target.bits" : 18

instead of

Code:

"rpc.target.rewrite" : true

in

Code:

server.json

to adjust the difficulty, but no success For VARDIFF I can not find anything at all.

Any help would be very much appreciated!

[paul21]

AFAIK pushpool isn't capable of either vardiff or stratum out of the box. I could be wrong about this though.

[thisway]

As far as I know almost all litecoin pools like give-me-ltc.com etc. use pushpool. They have support for stratum and VARDIFF.

[paul21]

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Stratum
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Poolservers

Eloipool modified for scrypt isn't that difficult and it has vardiff and stratum. Likewise, it's also not hard to modify pushpool to support stratum and vardiff. To my knowledge, there is no out of the box, open source on github pushpool with vardiff and stratum. The pool operators either modified it and didn't release it or use a different poolserver.

[thisway]

Thanks for the hint Paul. I have never heard about Eloipool.
Would you suggest to use Eloipool?
Why do almost all pool OPs use pushpool instead of Eloipool?

Do you have some advice for me how to customize pushpool in order to support stratum and VARDIFF?

Thanks in advance!

[Luke-Jr]

Eloipool modified for scrypt isn't that difficult and it has vardiff and stratum. Likewise, it's also not hard to modify pushpool to support stratum and vardiff. To my knowledge, there is no out of the box, open source on github pushpool with vardiff and stratum. The pool operators either modified it and didn't release it or use a different poolserver.

I have only granted AGPL licensing for Eloipool, so if someone is running a poolserver based on it without exposing the source code, they are infringing.
Feel free to let me know who, if anyone, is doing this, and I will have a chat with them (and throw the book if necessary).
But first, be sure they're actually infringing: grab a HTTP header from the poolserver and check out the path in the X-Source-Code header.