Linux-Hams archive - October 1997: Telnet and ax25

Telnet and ax25

Karl F. Larsen (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Wed, 01 Oct 1997 08:43:47 -0600

I answered Pete on my thoughts, but now think it's worth telling
some experiance I have had with telnet and a 9600 baud ax25 path. The
Gateway I use has TNOS on the radio side and the Internet arrives on a
ethernet card.

I do telnet to the TNOS over a ax25 path, no repeaters. I have
then telnet to my internet provider and used Pine to read my mail. It is
slow but it works.

Several times I have ftp large linux files to the gateway via
the 9600 baud radio path. It works faster than you might imagine. And
it's interesting to see ftp back off for channel use by other users. It
is very good about that.

As I told Pete, W5RAF "needed" the then latest version of NOS so
he found it in my /public directory and ftp'ed it over a 1200 baud path
that has a simplex digipeater (x1j-4). It took 14 hours...

So the question I think is not "Will it work?". Of course it can
be made to work. Maybe change some parameters in ax25-util and telnet.h
and like that. Can be done.

And if Pete has a need to do these things, then he should be
able to DO IT.

Yesterday, I am ashamed to admit I changed the name of my Linux
from k5di.ampr.org to cannac.ampr.org and to my utter surprise an old
smtp message for wy5g.ampr.org started to be sent and was sent properly.
I and Danny have been trying to smtp for a year now. We have a 1200 baud
path with 2 repeaters. We could ping and ftp but not smtp. Now smtp
works too and I have no idea why.

But this is what keeps things fun. 

-- 
73, de Karl aka k5di


        Karl F. Larsen Box 74, Mesilla Park, NM 88047 (505) 524-3303
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