annoying ax25ipd problem

From: Gavin Rogers (wxwl.fmbijnir@baptisthospital.com)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 11:04:53 EEST

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    Hi All.

    I'm having a problem with ax25ipd which I'm hoping someone can help me with.

    A few of my AXUDP partners are on dial up links and their connections go
    down every so often. I have scripts in place on my gateway to make sure
    that the UDP packets destined for these people ends up in the right place.

    The problem is, that the scripts are only run every few minutes and their
    dyndns.org (etc) entries take time to update, so there are times where my
    system does not know the correct IP for the AXUDP system.

    In the mean time, the IP address that used to be allocated to that amateur
    is taken by someone else. This tickles a bug in AX25ipd - if, while sending
    AXUDP packets, the response is "connection refused", then ax25ipd will
    crash completely. This, in turn, exposes a bug in FBB, which will crash as
    it tries to open the now non-existent axip port.

    I'm using ax25ipd version:

    starbase:/etc# /usr/sbin/ax25ipd -v

    ax25ipd Version 1.0.2 / 0.0.6
    Copyright 1991, Michael Westerhof, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    This software may be freely used, distributed, or modified, providing
    this header is not removed

    Apart from writing a hack script to ensure that ax25ipd is always running
    (and restart it if it isn't), does anyone know how I can get around this
    problem?

    Many thanks.

    Regards,
    Gavin Rogers

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