Re: Status of AX.25 in 2.5 / 2.6

From: Riley Williams (mwbdjqox@cambrex.com)
Date: Sun Jul 28 2002 - 20:19:01 EEST

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    Hi Ralf, Ken.

    >> It sounds like we have several people who've been digging into the
    >> kernel code. Do we perhaps need to make a real project of this, with
    >> a common place for the code and CVS to keep track of the changes? We
    >> could do this as a sourceforge project, or if everyone would rather
    >> keep this small, at least setup a CVS account somewhere that could
    >> keep track of changes. I could probably be talked into hosting such
    >> if needed.

    > I have server space but before I'm going to show off what we have I
    > think we first need to have something. Unfortunatley the number of
    > race conditions in that code are just frightening and the longer I'm
    > hacking the code the more I discover. Basically you can't run AX.25
    > on a system with untrusted users ...

    It sounds like the first thing we need is a list of the problems that
    need dealing with. Perhaps you could summarise the source files you've
    looked at and the number of problems you've found in each one?

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    I've just searched SourceForge for AX25 and have found six existing
    projects...

     1. ax25 Libraries and Utilities - this one does not have any
        form of description but appears to be the source of the
        ax25-apps, ax25-tools and libax25 packages.

     2. LinKT - A packet radio terminal for the Linux ax25 stack
        and the KDE.

     3. AX25 Mail Utilities - A set of utilities for packet radio
        mail exchange with the BBS.

     4. ax25 config utility - A utility simplifying the config
        of the Linux ax25 subsystem.

     5. linbbs - A little packet hamradio BBS for Linux ax25.

     6. Linux/SCS PTC-II gateway - A daemon that gateways ROSE
        network connections to the PTC-II WA8DED extended host
        mode channels to allow PACTOR and AX.25 packet radio
        users to gateway into a rose network or onto locally
        hosted applications via rose, and for rose users to
        gateway out.

    ...none of which appear to be connected to this. As a result, I would
    presume that there's nowhere in SourceForge that we could join rather
    than creating a new project.

    Best wishes from Riley G7GOD / KB8PPG.

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