From: Wietse Ruyg (bhyoj@cronomagic.com)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 20:36:31 EET
Tomi Manninen OH2BNS wrote:
>
> 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...
On one of mine machines i use the following command:
ifconfig bpq0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 hw PE1OEZ-14 up
I use an "arbitrary" ip address, it's not the same like eth0. And with
this netmask the command don't generate a route entry. I don't use a
dummy call-sign but maybe i can...
Wietse, PE1OEZ
gmjolzl.zhngdkazkh@boku.ac.at
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