From: Tomi Manninen OH2BNS (uwupgfr.fjtcevjd@6.udn.pl)
Date: Mon Jul 29 2002 - 15:16:32 EEST
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Craig Small wrote:
> If you're looking for something later, you may want to solve the
> ancient "why does an AX.25 interface need an IP address" question.
> The answer used to be "because it does", I'm not sure if that is still
> the case, I've got ports sitting on a Linux computer over *there*
> (points to rowlf) that don't have IP addresses or have 0.0.0.0
I think it's still the case. If an interface doesn't have an IP address,
it won't show up in the "list of known interfaces" from the kernel
(SIOCGIFCONF I think). So the utils/apps will never find it...
I did some digging a couple of years ago and also did a patch (with code
mostly stolen from Matt's/Jens' new-ax.25). See:
http://hes.iki.fi/archive/dev-hams/2000/0055.html
I never got an answer.
Oh, by the way. Has anyone done anything with the NEW-AX.25 patch lately?
I think it has some potential but unfortunately seems it's now completely
unmaintained.
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