New node questions

From: Rodolfo Brasnarof (cktyixl.dbehyyf@bitas.lt)
Date: Thu Apr 08 2004 - 22:15:27 EEST

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    Hi. I'm setting up a new bbs-node for my local club, to
    replace a dos based one (fbb & bpq). It's based on slackware
    9.1, on a 486, with 2 vhf ports.

    Well, I have a lot of questions:

    The node:

    Slackware 9.1 includes linuxnode. I also found awznode. Is
    there anybody using it, or any other one? Which is best?

    There seems to be a standard for nodes to use callsign-4. Is
    that correct?

    I've seen some examples setting netrom names for a node
    (mnemonic) preceded with a # as in #NODE. Is that correct.
    Should I use NODE or #NODE as netrom mnemonic for the node?
    And what ssid should I use for the netrom port in nrports?

    Convers daemon:

    I donwloaded and tried htpp-1.22. It works. Then I've found
    htppu-1.5 and conversd-saupp. They seem to be derived one on
    the other, with fixes and patchs. Again, which is best?

    Digipeater:

    I'm using digi_ned. It's working fine, as standard
    digipeater. I want to enable cross port digipeating (as the
    system has 2 ports). Is there any standard in defining the
    SSIDs for a cross port digi? For example, I'm trying this:

    LU6DG digipeat on the same port (standard digi)
    LU6DG-1 digipeat on port 1 (regardless the input port)
    LU6DG-2 digipeat on port 2 (regardless the input port)

    When crossing ports, it does callsing swaping, and works
    fine. Here's the config for this:

    digipeat: 1 LU6DG 1
    digipeat: 2 LU6DG 2
    digipeat: 1 LU6DG-1 1 keep
    digipeat: 2 LU6DG-1 1 swap LU6DG-2
    digipeat: 2 LU6DG-2 2 keep
    digipeat: 1 LU6DG-2 2 swap LU6DG-1

    BBS:

    A friend has been trying fbb, and it seems to have a problem
    when doing compressed forward to a dos or windows fbb. Do
    you know something about it?

    What about using other bbs program than fbb? What about
    dpbox? Any suggestion?

    Thanks for all the help.

    -----------------
    Rodolfo Brasnarof
    LW6EAH
    Punta Alta
    Argentina

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