Linux-Hams archive - January 1997: Beginners Question

Beginners Question

Sven Geggus (ucvgjlhs.zcgitgs@anvilcom.com)
2 Jan 1997 12:18:11 GMT


Hello,

this one could be trivial, but what I want to know is the following:

Can I accept both, incomming tcp/ip calls and incomming ax25 calls without
tcp/ip eg. to tell the caller that this station is tcpip only and to do
telnet without the tcp/ip protocoll overhead using axspawn (is this really
that faster?)

Anyway, at the moment my interface looks like this:
--cut--
sl0 Link encap:AMPR AX.25 HWaddr KA1SG
inet addr:192.168.2.2 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP RUNNING MTU:256 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
--cut--

Would be nice if someone could inform me on this, probably you should know
that I know a lot about tcp/ip but doesn't have a clue of ax25 at all.

So can someone tell me what the -1, -2 or something additions to the
callsigns are about?

Thanks for Info in advance, pointers to faqs, howtos etc. would be nice as
well. And yes, I did read the ham and ax25 howto!

Sven

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