Re: AX25 and Redhat 6.1

From: Kjell Jarl (pzuy@vagabond.wla.pl)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2000 - 00:49:37 EET

  • Next message: zuf@mx.dy.fi: "Re: RE: AX25 and Redhat 6.1"

    Hi Richard,
    I am using the _same_ IP number on all ports (except for two on the
    ethernet; eth0 and eth0:0, one is for my internal net, and one official
    to the internet). Careful routing set up should take care of routing to
    the differnt ports.
    73/Kjell sm7gvf

    skfpcb@areco.hu wrote:
    >
    > Greetings everyone,
    >
    > Over the last couple of weeks I have been trying to get AX25 going on Redhat
    > 6.1. I am unable to comple ax25-utils-2.1.42a.tar.gz on the base system. I get
    > all sorts of compile errors. In the end I gave up after manually editing most
    > of the files and including the errno.h file where needed. It also appears that
    > the sockets.h file included by default was not the correct one to use. I got
    > most of it to compile but just gave up eventually.
    >
    > I have also tried installing from the RPM's. (ax25-utils-2-1-42a-3 and
    > ax25-utils-2-1-42a-9) This resulted in a different problem. No matter what I
    > did the call program would give me an error to say that none of my ports were
    > active. Well the TNC was in Kiss mode and receiving packets. When I did an
    > ifconfig | more I was able to see ax0 was receiving frames and it was reported
    > by the kernel as up. In my book this is active.
    >
    > In the end I tried to give the port an IP address with the ifconfig command. I
    > could not believe it when everything flashed, the TNC went into TX etc. I am
    > now able to call my local BBS and everything is great....
    >
    > However, one problem remains. I have an IP address assigned to each of my ax
    > ports. This is a problem as I run Samba and a whole host of other packages on
    > my Linux box and I do not wish to see them appear on RF. I cannot delete them
    > from the routing table as they are interfaces, not routes and I do not really
    > want to firewall the machine. If I mark the interface as down, I will not be
    > able to use AX25 either.... My security policy was to be so simple - No IP
    > transport...
    >
    > The ideal solution is to somehow remove IP from the interface and leave ax25 up.
    > Has anyone worked out how to solve this problem? I notice there are a few other
    > people who have got AX25 running with an IP address.
    >
    > Thanks
    > Richard
    > VK2HDJ



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Jan 05 2000 - 00:51:49 EET