From: Richard Adams (ajjxmlq@nns.ne.jp)
Date: Mon Apr 10 2000 - 09:49:24 EEST
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, John Gorkos wrote about, Unproto Path in AX25:
> <asbestos reason="aprs in linux listgroup">
>
> Background: I am running APRSdigi on my RedHat 6.1 box, with a MFJ-1278
> hanging on ttyS0. I am using the modified AXtools from Alan Crosswell,
> N2YGK. Everything is working well (aprsmon allows TCP/IP connections,
> beacons are sent, etc.).
>
> Problem 1: Occasionally, for no apparent reason, my TNC drops out of
> KISS mode. I can figure no rhyme or reason for it, but it just poops
> out. This is pretty unsolvable in this forum, but I just wanted to
> point out that the 1278 is somewhat unreliable in KISS mode and wondered
> if anyone sees this happen in more "conventional" (i.e. ROSE or TCP)
> applications.
Prolem 1 is an mfj 1278 problem, i borrowed one from a friend some while
back, it did the same. Old pk232 models have the same problem like TNC-1's.
No idea on prob 2.
> Problem 2: The beacon command I use looks like this:
> beacon -d APRS -t 15 ax0 '<my beacon string>'
> Unfortunately, with APRS being a UI-only protocol, my beacons don't get
> propagated through the APRS system. I need to be able to do something
> like this:
> beacon -d "APRS via WIDE,WIDE,WIDE" ...
> Is there an axparm that I'm missing in the documentation that will allow
> me to do this? Thanks.
>
> John Gorkos
> KB5HHR
>
> </asbestos>
-- Regards Richard naluv.eoxixgmg@figure1.net http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
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