Very good information. I have no intention to share/(open ports on) my pool. Hell - I have no intention of running a pool at all if possible!
My only idea is to mine solo suitable coins. So my questions:
1. does cgminer (antminer's version in particular) support getwork? I would think no - but not sure, that's why I'm asking.
2. getwork proxy - basically turn stratum back into getwork so D3 to mine against a wallet (deamon or qt). You answered this with #5, right?
Hehe okay cgminer (antminer's version) seems to support getwork ONLY for the 256 machines. - I do not have an s9 so not 100% sure there.
the scrypt and x11 are a big ol' nope.
and yeah #5 ... "workin' on it." ** side note inspired by this conversation I got back to work on the lil' pool server.. after much gnashing of teeth and screaming of obscenities and a little bit of blood sacrifice.. (not sure why that seems to help when dealing with hardware....) figure it out... sort of.. hahaha.. when I went to look at the memory sticks to see about upgrading them I put them back in diff slots.. I mean really exactly the same sticks.. different slots suddenly it won't boot?!?! switch em out.. put it all back together.. annnnnnd does it boot? NO! but it gets farther than before.. now the bootloader is flipping out on me.. some coffee for me and back to it.
once I get this thing back up and running, and mess with my mutant embedded project a little more I'll see if I can't find out how I did the reverse fake proxy thing and then hope it still works (lots of software including how many of the wallets work has been changed/updated etc... so it might not work at all.. might work with only a few coins. - but if you get tired of waiting on me there is always the heartache that is coiniumserv. Bwhahahahahahaha.. ** workin' on it: it is a little like SOON but with a slightly higher chance of it actually happening. *rofl* the intent to complete is there, but life has a way of distracting... oh pretty....