From: Ricardo Saiz Villoria EA1APM (lne.abvjvzzx@admatec.ch)
Date: Thu Sep 27 2001 - 01:34:30 EEST
Hi
I belong to EA1RCT radio club, in the University of Vigo. We are
interested in packet radio over linux, and have experimented a bit with
it. We've set up tcp/ip services over ax.25 and also an aprsd igate.
Unfortunately, aprsd 2.1.4 by vk3sb does not work nicely under RedHat 7,
which is the distribution we were using. After compiling the sources,
the program wouldn't open any port. We asked eb5esx for help and he sent
us his binnaries. It worked, except the "posit2rf" option. No matter the
callsigns, it wouldn't transmit any packet. The solution was to use
"gate2rf", and limit the traffic to one packet every 3 seconds or so.
Trouble is, so many packets are dropped.
We've recently changed the server (lostrego.uvigo.es) from a 486DX4,
120Mhz with 32MB RAM to an AMD 400 Mhz with 128 MB of RAM. So the 486
could be dedicated just to packet radio services. The question is, which
distribution and kernel version is better for ax.25 work?
The other question I have is, is it simple to link a linux computer to
another one with flexnet by means of AXIP? What is needed? I did it with
two flexnet machines, and it would be very useful to have the same
posibility in linux.
Thanks in advace. Any help will save us a lot of time. Please excuse my
ignorance.
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