Linux-Hams archive - November 1999: Re: axdigi vs. other methods?

Re: axdigi vs. other methods?

Tomi Manninen (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Thu, 4 Nov 1999 19:16:58 +0200 (EET)


On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Chris Ruffin wrote:

> rxecho passes the packets unmodified, which may or may not be
> what I want- not sure. I am trying to let users make calls like:
>
> call co2ja via mystation-15
>
> where i have mystation-15 set up as a digipeating ax25 port. I
> don't know how this is specified in the ax25 header, so I can't
> say for sure if the digipeating station is supposed to strip this
> off somehow. If it is supposed to strip it off, then I don't
> think rxecho is designed for that.

In normal AX.25 digipeating the digipeater sets the "digipeated" bit for
it's address in the header. Rxecho of course doesn't do that.

Rxecho could be used to make a station on another frequency (a bbs maybe)
available on another frequency through your station as if it was directly
reachable but I'm not sure that would be a good idea. But then again
digipeating isn't a good idea either...

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