Linux-Hams archive - December 1996: Re: ax.25 in-band digipeating of UI frames & aliases

Re: ax.25 in-band digipeating of UI frames & aliases

xryja@relay.tunkki.fi
Thu, 5 Dec 1996 06:54:36 +1100 (EST)


Alan Crosswell typed:
>

> in assuming that I will need to use/modify a program like axdigi in order
> to provide the digipeater function (e.g. there is no in-kernel digipeating
> support for aliases?).
I believe this to be the case. Nice to see the old program might be useful
for something still. I wrote axdigi back when we didn't have ax25
digipeating in the kernel. For those that are interested, it was used to
test to raw socket interface (input and output) for rspfd.

> I've already modified ax-utils-2.0.12's beacon
> to accept command line arguments of the digi path (equivalent to UNPROTO
> TNC command) so that my station beacons APRS-style. And I've used listen
> as the starting point for an APRS monitor (collects UI frames, makes them
> available to javAPRS, etc.)
Sorry for covering old ground for some, but what exactly does APRS do? Is
it some sort of netrom-like routing protocol?

- Craig vk2xlz

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