From: Tomi Manninen OH2BNS (tzuw.gvcf@pspt.fi)
Date: Tue Jul 17 2001 - 11:51:46 EEST
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, pa3gcu wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2001 20:26, Tomi Manninen wrote:
> > root@oh2bns ~ # netrom_call netrom oh2bns oh2rbi-1 | tr '\r' '\n'
> One real pitfall here is the portname, netrom, its so simple but so
> confusing, yes it works with "netrom" as thats what nr0 is called here, but
> on the otherhand normally speaking netrom connects go via an "ax25"
> interface, such as scc3 like i was trying to use.
The whole point of NET/ROM (or any layer 3 / 4 protocol) is that you don't
need, or even want to know what AX.25 port the connection goes out on. Nor
do you want to know anything about the route of AX.25 connections it
travels to get to its destination. Also in a real network the AX.25 port
and the route can change dynamically at any time and you don't want to
know about it.
If you are thinking like that, ie. you want to make a NET/ROM connection
on the AX.25 port scc3 then you have completely missed the point of
NET/ROM...
> Possably a mention of this in the man page would be of much help to
> dummies like me and a million others who seems to be in the same boot,
> or so it would seem.
Well, it is true that other software doesn't really have the concept of
netrom ports or interfaces. Usually they have one logical netrom port or
at most two. Like BPQ: one for the "node" function, one for the bbs. But
you can't separate them.
So in that sense a mention in the man page might be in order. It's just
that at some point we need to add the whole genesis (and
equivalents) in there...
> Just one question left, why is it that netrom_call ejects such confusing
> error messges when it is abused by dummies like "me", i am sure it should
> surpt out "readable" error messages even when invoked on a "remote telnet
> link".
I don't find them all that confusing. They are completely readable when
the program is used like it's intended to be used.
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