Here is a note to file in the back of the "cabinet".
After a lot of frustration and help from Terry Dawson, I've overcome a
problem with TCP/IP connection between Linux systems over the radio.
I had successfully set up Linux my home system and our remote-sited club
BBS and both systems were happy with ax25 connections - using "call" at
home and xfbb at the BBS. We also operate an internet wormhole at VK6DLX on
the same frequency, running DOS/JNOS. VK6DLX is set as my router for all
ampr.org addresses except my local subnet. As per published samples of
rc.ax25, I had a manual ARP entry for VK6DLX in rc.ax25.
I understood that the manual arp entry was intended to reduce the overheads
involved in arp resolution each time a link needed to be established with
or through the router and it worked well with VK6DLX. So I thought I would
add an arp entry for the club BBS station as well. Some time later I
noticed that I couldn't ping, telnet or ftp to the BBS.
It turns out that my manual arp entry had declared the hardware address as
VK6WFH when it needed to be the full call sign with ssid, in this case
VK6WFH-14. When I removed the manual arp entry and let the system do the
work, all returned to normal.
Thanks again Terry for your help.
73 all
Phil vk6ad
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