Re: NEW-AX.25: Starting to clean up socket API

From: Chuck Gelm (chqnwat.qcjjdz@ivv.de)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 17:05:05 EET

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    Howdy, Jean-Paul:

     Interesting. I had no idea. Around here we use clones of 'NET/ROM'.
    G8BPQ, THENET/X1J, MSYS, and such. I know of no flex, rose, or fpac
    within 100 kilometers. :-|

    73, Chuck nc8q

    Jean-Paul ROUBELAT wrote:
    >
    > From: Chuck Gelm <zbksauy@glthome.com>
    >
    > > Howdy, Y'all:
    > >
    > > IMHO, digipeating is obsolete.
    >
    > Digipeating is maybe obsolete but digipeater fields are not. They are mainly
    > used for routing information within networks (flex, rose, fpac, etc...)
    >
    > >
    > > 73, Chuck nc8q
    > >
    > >
    > > Joerg Reuter wrote:
    > > >
    > > > Hi folks,
    > > >
    > > > the existing API for AX.25 sockets is a bit too liberal concerning
    > > > the size of the sockaddr structure. It makes the code hard to read
    > > > (thus difficult to maintain) and almost impossible to implement
    > > > alternative ideas. In fact, we have three different structures to
    > > > choose from:
    > > >
    > > > - struct sockaddr_ax25 (obsolete, does not allow digipeaters)
    > > <snip>
    > >
    >
    > 73,
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