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Great.  I will look for it.  Best luck.

Having just installed WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) on my Win10 machine, I find that I can attach to a project (e.g., CPDN) and run a work unit OK.  But I have to use a command-line version of BOINC Manager (boinccmd).  https://www.cpdn.org/forum_thread.php?id=9025

It looks like it will be a while before WSL get a GUI to allow the use of Boinc Manager, if it works at all.
It would be much nicer if BoincTasks could manage those accounts running under WSL.  It can already detect the presence of WSL, so there must be some capability.

Thanks.

Yes, that is what they could do.  But I have 9 machines, and 8 of them run Ubuntu and are dedicated to BOINC, so they are taken over anyway.  There would not be much point to just changing the projects, though they could.

The other machine runs Windows, and I use it for other purposes than BOINC.  If I get worried about it, I could exclude that one from port forwarding.  It just runs one project, and I don't really need to change anything about it normally.

It is a trade-off, but it would be nice to be able to monitor and change projects myself, since on long trips there is usually something going wrong on some project that needs attention.

Even if they could catch the password in transmission (unlikely), all they could do is change your BOINC settings.  That is not a security risk, only a nuisance risk.

Thanks.  By using an "gui_rpc_auth.cfg" file and setting a strong password, it should be good enough for me.

I did get it to work.  For some reason, I had to delete the old PC entry and use the "Add computer" one to create it again with the password.  But the ports forward properly, and it works outside the LAN now.

I have BOINCTasks set up to monitor my Linux machines on the LAN using a Windows machine on the same LAN (192.168.0.1), and everything works fine.  But when away from home, I would like to monitor the machines from the WAN side of my router.  I have tried forwarding the port 31416 to various other ports, one for each machine, but I can not access them over the Internet, where I use my WAN IP address and the appropriate port number in BOINCTasks running on my notebook PC.

The problem may be my ISP, but how should I check it?

OK, thanks for looking into it.  I may take it up again with the BOINC people later, now that you have narrowed it down. 
But the information is there if you know where to look for it. 

This is for the i7-8700 (Ubuntu 18.04).  The avx and avx2 are OK there..
   

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CPU Processors: 12, GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz [Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10]
CPU fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb invpcid_single pti tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt intel_pt xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves ibpb ibrs stibp dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp
Os Linux Ubuntu, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS [4.15.0-22-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]
Memory 31.10 Gb, Virtual: 2.00 Gb
Disk Used: 227.74 Gb, Free: 198.63 Gb
GPU


[EDIT:]

I installed 1.77 and rebooted both the Windows 7 64-bit machine on which it is installed, and Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 machines that are connected over the LAN.  But I still don't see avx and avx2.

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GTX-980-PC
1 6/13/2018 12:03:32 PM Starting BOINC client version 7.8.3 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
2 6/13/2018 12:03:32 PM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
3 6/13/2018 12:03:32 PM Libraries: libcurl/7.47.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.32 librtmp/2.3
4 6/13/2018 12:03:32 PM Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
5 6/13/2018 12:03:33 PM CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 980 (driver version 390.48, CUDA version 9.1, compute capability 5.2, 4035MB, 3935MB available, 5186 GFLOPS peak)
6 6/13/2018 12:03:33 PM OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 980 (driver version 390.48, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 4035MB, 3935MB available, 5186 GFLOPS peak)
7 6/13/2018 12:03:33 PM Host name: GTX-980-PC
8 6/13/2018 12:03:33 PM Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz [Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9]
9 6/13/2018 12:03:33 PM Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc
                6/13/2018 12:03:33 PM arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pc
10 6/13/2018 12:03:33 PM OS: Linux Ubuntu: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS [4.13.0-45-generic]

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i7-8700-PC

1 6/13/2018 12:03:55 PM Starting BOINC client version 7.9.3 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
2 6/13/2018 12:03:55 PM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
3 6/13/2018 12:03:55 PM Libraries: libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.0g zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
4 6/13/2018 12:03:55 PM Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
5 6/13/2018 12:03:55 PM No usable GPUs found
6 6/13/2018 12:03:55 PM [libc detection] gathered: 2.27, Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1
7 6/13/2018 12:03:55 PM Host name: i7-8700-PC
8 6/13/2018 12:03:55 PM Processor: 12 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz [Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10]
9 6/13/2018 12:03:55 PM Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm
6/13/2018 12:03:33 PM constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperf
10 6/13/2018 12:03:55 PM OS: Linux Ubuntu: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS [4.15.0-22-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]

Are there any checks I should do?

EDIT: I have no problem with a Windows 7 64-bit machine that I connect over the LAN.  It is an i7-3770, and avx shows properly there.

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i7-3770-PC1

1 5/24/2018 1:16:18 PM Starting BOINC client version 7.9.3 for windows_x86_64
2 5/24/2018 1:16:18 PM This a development version of BOINC and may not function properly
3 5/24/2018 1:16:18 PM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
4 5/24/2018 1:16:18 PM Libraries: libcurl/7.47.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8
5 5/24/2018 1:16:18 PM Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
6 5/24/2018 1:16:18 PM Running under account Jim
7 5/24/2018 1:16:18 PM No usable GPUs found
8 5/24/2018 1:16:18 PM All projects have zero resource share; setting to 100
9 5/24/2018 1:16:19 PM Host name: i7-3770-PC1
10 5/24/2018 1:16:19 PM Processor: 8 GenuineIntel  Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz [Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9]
11 5/24/2018 1:16:19 PM Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes
6/13/2018 12:03:55 PM f16c rdrandsyscall nx lm avx vmx smx tm2 pbe fsgsbase smep
12 5/24/2018 1:16:19 PM OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)

No problem at all.  I now know where to look for the values, it just threw me for a loop when I first ran into it.  You will save some people problems though by fixing it.  Thanks.

You say the problem is only with the Linux machines, so my guess is still that this is a BOINC client issue.

Here is the discussion on the BOINC forum where the experts there thought it was a problem with BoincTasks. 
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=12255

I have confirmed that the relevant BOINC files include the missing flags, and apparently they get transmitted to the BOINC project servers.  It is just a question of where they get dropped going to the Messages tab.  I can't say beyond that.

That points to a problem with the Linux Boinc client, that's often much older than the Windows version.

I am running BOINC 7.8.3 on both my Windows and Ubuntu machines (except 7.6.31 and 7.8.4 on one Ubuntu machine each).  But 7.8.3 is in the Ubuntu (i.e., Debian) repository now.

Yes, that is everything I see.  It is only truncated for BOINC running on the Ubuntu machines (I have five of them) viewed over the LAN.  BoincTasks shows all the extensions correctly for BOINC running on the same Windows 7 machine.

Thanks for looking into it. 

I am trying to use BOINC 7.8.3 to run a AVX project (LHC/SixTrack) on an Ubuntu 16.04.3 machine running on an i7-4770.  I am fairly sure that AVX works properly on this machine, but BoincTasks (running on a Win7 64-bit machine over the LAN) does not list it on startup.

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1 1/21/2018 9:17:23 AM Starting BOINC client version 7.8.3 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
2 1/21/2018 9:17:23 AM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
3 1/21/2018 9:17:23 AM Libraries: libcurl/7.47.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.32 librtmp/2.3
4 1/21/2018 9:17:23 AM Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
5 1/21/2018 9:17:24 AM CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 1070 (driver version 387.34, CUDA version 9.1, compute capability 6.1, 4096MB, 3984MB available, 6561 GFLOPS peak)
6 1/21/2018 9:17:24 AM OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 1070 (driver version 387.34, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 8105MB, 3984MB available, 6561 GFLOPS peak)
7 1/21/2018 9:17:24 AM Host name: i7-4770-PC
8 1/21/2018 9:17:24 AM Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz [Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3]
9 1/21/2018 9:17:24 AM Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmper
10 1/21/2018 9:17:24 AM OS: Linux Ubuntu: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS [4.13.0-26-generic]


Can you look into this?