XFBB archive - January 1997: Small Gotcha

Small Gotcha

Karl F. Larsen (lud@lnoca.org)
Fri, 31 Jan 1997 11:50:03 -0700 (MST)

Been pulling out what little hair I have left over a vexing problem
with FBB bbs software, I thought. I was unable to get FBB to forward to 2
bbs via the netrom connect. I thought netrom was the culprit but it worked
just fine when I tested it. So it had to be my forward.sys file. I stared at
that thing for 30 minutes. It was perfect.

I was forwarding just fine with f6cnb via netrom and k5wph and
wb7tls using a ax25 port. Having other problems with FBB I have it started
from root and was looking at the error output and saw 2 places where it said
"no NETROM node found". So I decided to run an experiment.

With the program call I tried to connect with kc5izt which I had
just checked was in my node list. I typed call netrom kc5izt and got back
"no NETROM node found". Then I used the the alias abqbbs and did call netrom
abqbbs and BAM! I was connected!

Then I tried call netrom kc5izt-0 and BAM! I was connected!

So I changed the FBB forward.sys to C C KC5IZT-0 and it's doing it now.

73, de Karl aka k5di

Karl F. Larsen Box 74, Mesilla Park, NM 88047 (505) 524-3303
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