From: Tomi Manninen (dwtxlph@kerailya.tunkki.fi)
Date: Sat Jan 13 2001 - 17:25:32 EET
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Roger Harris wrote:
> Well, having playing with "The Net" and BPQ nodes for a number of years, I
> can confirm that the normal behaviour of a node appears to be to calculate
> the local quality first, and then to drop the route if the result is less
> than the worst quality. In most cases, Sysops set worst_quality to 10,
> which means that no node table should ever contain an entry with a quality
> of less than 10.
>
> If it is not done in this way, users can see nodes in the table which have
> very little chance of ever working.
>
> I hope this is helpful. I'm currently using the version of netromd from
> ax25tool-0.0.6-24 which comes with the SuSE 7.0 distribution. Has there
> been an update recently?
No, but you can try the attached (completely untested) patch. Let me know
if it works.
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