Re: config BPQ Ethernet device

From: Tomi Manninen OH2BNS (rahckzz.ikxoubbu@vagabond.wla.pl)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 15:12:01 EET

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    On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Chris Leishman wrote:

    > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:22:22PM +0200, Tomi Manninen OH2BNS wrote:
    > > On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Chris Leishman wrote:
    > >
    > > > bpq0 Link encap:AMPR AX.25 HWaddr DUMMY-01
    > > > UP RUNNING MTU:256 Metric:1
    > > > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    > > > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    > > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
    > > > xxx:~# cat /etc/ax25/axports
    > > > # /etc/ax25/axports
    > > > #
    > > > 1 DUMMY-01 10000000 256 2 BPQ/Linux ethernet
    > > > xxx:~# axparms -route list
    > > > axconfig: port 1 not active
    > > > axparms: no AX.25 port data configured
    > > > xxx:~#
    > > >
    > > > How do I make the port active??
    > >
    > > You need to give it an IP address.
    > >
    >
    > Ummm... I thought BPQ used the broadcast address (on linux) to send/receive
    > data? I'm not talking about doing IP over AX25 over BPQ over Ethernet - just
    > the last three.

    BPQether uses the _MAC_ broadcast address but that beside the point. A
    rather unfortunate but not that easily fixed mis-feature of the kernel
    AX.25 stuff requires you to assign an IP address to every AX.25 device to
    be able to use them. Even if you don't plan to use any IP... 

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Tomi Manninen           Internet:  golugcb@relay.tunkki.fi
OH2BNS                  AX.25:     nznddq.jqklhxspcn@gemko.com
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