There is a "nice to have" problem. I want my pbbs to have a name
that is broadcast as a node, but connects to the pbbs. My users now need
to remember that k5di-4 is a node, k5di-3 is a pbbs, k5di-5 is a
dx-cluster and k5di is the Linux login. It is confusing...:-)
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Tomi Manninen wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, VE7IHL (Lane) wrote:
>
> > We are getting some callsigns that the ax.25 kernel support seems to be
> > ignoring. When I log onto the the node, and type a 'link' command, it
> > shows these callsigns as 'Disconnected' (this stays like this forever) and
> > the 'Rcv-Q' set at -180. This seems quite strange to me. (-180?) What does
> > 'disconnected' mean. (other than the obvious)
>
> Read my previous posting about this. I was replying to someone who had
> problems with XFBB ignoring certain callsigns. This is an old problem with
> the AX.25 and NET/ROM implementation in 2.0.x kernels. There is no known
> fix to this AFAIK. It seems to be fixed in 2.1.x kernels.
>
> > I have another system running on a Pentium-150, using Slackware 3.3 (also
> > same kernel 2.0.35, and other stuff) and I am not seeing any of these
> > problems at all. (i.e. almost the exact same software)
>
> It may be a timing problem in the kernel somewhere and a fast machine
> might hide the problem.
>
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>
>
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