Thanks for your reply. I appreciate any and all feedback
as I'm very new to packet and relatively new
( about 8 intense months ) to Linux.
On Sun, 14 Sep 1997 10:06:14 +0000 Klaus Kudielka
<terhi.victor@logonet.com> writes:
>>
>> My first question is ' What exactly is ax25rtd for ??'
>
>You only need it if you have to learn AX.25 routes (e.g. if users of
>your system connect via different digipeaters).
This is a brand new system so I assume I have to learn routes
>> I have no files : /var/ax25/ax25rtd/control
>> /var/ax25/ax25rtd/ax25_routes
>> /var/ax25/ax25rtd/ip_routes
>"ax25rtctl -s" will create the files for you.
I restarted it with -s ( and & to run in the background )
and still the files do not exist ...
( What does the -s do, and are there other options ?
there is no man page, only a fairly good README )
>> I have started the ax25rtd and when I run ( for ex. )
>> ax25rtctl -- list ax25 the system returns
>> ax25rtctl connect: Connection refused
Now at least it says
ax25rtctl connect: No such file or directory
>Did you edit /etc/ax25/ax25rtd.conf for your needs?
I don't know !! :-)
> Did you verify that ax25rtd really runs and
> that a socket named "/var/ax25/ax25rtd/control"
>has been created?
I did a ps -x and ax25rtd -s is shown, however there is no
socket ( file? ) /var/ax25/ax25rtd/control
The directory /var/ax25/ax25rtd exists, but it is empty.
> Can you show me your configuration?
Here it is - the #'s are my comments here and not
necesarily in the conf file:
ax25-maxroutes 256
ip-maxroutes 256
# this is my 1200 baud 2 meter port on sl0
[radio1]
ax25-learn-routes mine
# the next line in the conf example describes a DAMA master. I don't
# have the slightest clue as to what that is and put the local club node
# in here. It's probably wrong as I don't believe it's a tcp/ip node, if
that
# matters.
ax25-add-path wb2vpy-7
# I'm not sure about this one either. these ssid's are configured in
# my ax25d.conf kb6fst-10 is my <netrom>
ax25-more-mycalls kb6fst-1 kb6fst-10
# I followed the instructions on this one ie: don't change it if you
# don't know what you're doing - and I don't :>)
ip-learn-routes no
ip-adjust-node no
# However, I did change this one
arp-add yes
# That's it
>This beast _is_ difficult to configure -- you have to know exactly
>what you want to do. Don't start ax25rtd just out of curiosity.
> It may do bad things to your routing tables.
It's a brand new setup and I don't think there are any routing tables
that I'm aware of, but then again this is ALL new to me, so what
do I know.
Thanks again
John C.
KB6FST