From: Tomi Manninen OH2BNS (kizcbrtg.znmfvn@ovh.net)
Date: Tue Nov 21 2000 - 15:26:26 EET
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Robert Jenkins wrote:
> I've been running a Node using ax25-utils-2.1.42a for some time. I'm about
> to upgrade to RedHat 7.0 & the AX25 / Node packages from tthe RH7 Powertools
> disk.
>
> When I first got the Node going, I asked if there was a facility for
> montoring the retry counts on a particular route (or port) along the lines
> of the BPQ 'RR' command.
> I was told that there was nothing like this, but people seemed to agree it
> was a good idea.
>
> Has this facility ever been implemented??
This would need support from the kernel AX.25 layer. Kernel would need to
gather the data and provide it for user level applications like node.
You didn't mention what kernel version you use now (the utils version is
really rather unrelevant here) but the kernel side of the AX.25 stuff has
really changed very little lately. Chances are there are only bug fixes
compared to what you are running now.
> Is it possible to use the same callsign as set for netrom use for user AX25
> connects? (ie. netrom WKSOP:G0WTK-3 & users can also make uplink connects to
> G0WTK-3).
> I think I tried this with 2.1.42a, and found that a non-netrom connect just
> froze up after the initial control frames were exchanged. Did I do something
> wrong with the config or was (is?) this not possible,
This stuff has been discussed here about a million times and I assume you
are aware of all the aspects. There are some more or less
perfect workarounds and those have been discussed here several times also
so I'm not going to repeat.
To answer your question: this is a kernel issue, not a utils issue. In
this respect I don't think anything has changed since day one of kernel
AX.25.
(BTW You the connection should not freeze in a situation you describe even
without workarounds but you need to be aware of the risks that the welcome
message etc. cause to netrom interlink connections.)
> Is there any option for the Node to control whether the sign-on text is
> displayed? (I would like it to display the sign-on when a user connects to
> the Alias, but not when they connect to the callsign, as per other Netrom
> node software) This would be easy to set up in ax25d if there is such a
> flag.
Implementing this at node level (node as in "node" the user level program
written by me) would be easy and I can not see any downsides to
implementing it. I'll add this to my todo list.
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