Quote from: Chris Weber on April 10, 2013, 10:39:21 PM

no reason to apologize, you're absolutely right

Quote from: BitMinerN8 on April 10, 2013, 08:36:51 PM

Otherwise yes, as Kano said, for just a FPGA, just add the backup pool in the mining software.

yep, I already did this.. but as getwork pools are becoming rare.. your option to run another proxy still makes (more) sense
and as slush wants pools to adopt stratum, and also advises miners to "simply" use his proxy instead of updating the mining software with stratum.. a lightweight solution would be nicer
for now I hope having more proxies and still some getwork pools will be sufficient for a while.

Just curious, what FPGA device, and what mining software are you using? I could see you wanting Getwork support if you were supporting older rigs with GPUs, but with FPGA, your have options for mining software, like cgminer, with Stratum support built in. Setting backup pools in cgminer is trivial, and most top tier mining pools support Stratum.