Thanks for your explanation. I'm left with the same emotions after reading
your message that I got from exchanging messages with the author.
I think what I am looking for is a bpq like interface that would
replace ax25d/netrom/node
be easy to configure
be easy for my neighbors to know exactly how to force an ax.25 circuit with...
let me use less than thirteen callsigns for my setup
:-) Chuck
Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>
> Hello Guys,
> First let me say that the BPQ is very easy to configure under DOS
> or windows and it is written so a BBS like FBB can broadcast both it's
> call and alias as a node and set the initial quality.
>
> Under ax25d and linux BPQ can't run and there is zero ways to
> configure either the Netrom or Node or ax25 software so it will do the
> same as BPQ. I asked the author of Netrom why he could not do this and he
> said the BPQ code, which he helped John Wiseman to write is "dirty code".
> He does not want to change his almost if not perfect copy of the Netrom
> specifications he sends with his software. And it is HIS software!
>
> So I think you all must just do as FBB said and let his software
> answer calls to it's ssid and let that be good.
>
> CUL es 73
>
> - Karl F. Larsen, 3310 East Street (505) 524-3303 gwd@aoltw.com -