Re: Status of AX.25 in 2.5 / 2.6

From: Tomi Manninen OH2BNS (hldeh.zuevxesbu@bp.com)
Date: Tue Jul 30 2002 - 12:38:51 EEST

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    On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Jason Flynn G7OCD wrote:

    > I'm aware fully of the reasons behind this, but when you are running
    > a system with 13 AX25 ports you start running out of SSIDs for your
    > services. I've had to start naming services with names that aren't
    > valid callsigns like 'MARTCONV' and 'SDGBBS' because before long I'm
    > going to have used all the SSIDs for ports...

    Yep, this is definitely a problem.

    We should try to get rid of the need for an unique callsign-ssid for each
    AX.25 interface. In fact it might be possible already (with SO_BINDTODEV).

    However I still strongly believe that we need (want) a separate callsign
    for the L3 traffic. Ultimately it might be possible to use one callsign
    for all L3 protocol traffic (NET/ROM, ROSE, IP). Then a typical system
    could run with a minimum of two callsigns. 

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Tomi Manninen           Internet:  mivugev@chello062179039235.chello.pl
OH2BNS                  AX.25:     wktk.oztg@kcg-inc.com
KP20ME04                Amprnet:   qjgzl@oxford.caffe.pl

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