Good day to everyone, I am new to this group - could not help but notice JNOS mentioned.
Jose stated earlier : > I believe that the simplest is not reinventing the wheel, and > using MultiPSK as a modem, using traditional BBS programs as > the mail application. Believe it or not, using MultiPSK as a modem for JNOS has been on my mind for quite some time now. It's on my TODO list, I just have not gotten to it yet. I have chatted with the author of MultiPSK about doing this as well. I'm not sure what mode I would want to use it for though. I even considered using JNOS as an IP bridge using the MultiPSK modem to transport RAW IP (more or less) frames over HF, as one example of what was on my mind. > The store and forward part could mean a *LOT* of work ... Not really. JNOS has a S&F ability already, it would just be a matter of writing a new INTERFACE (PORT) for JNOS to communicate over. JNOS could use FBB, FBB compressed, or B2F (recently added in my attempt to keep uptodate with WinLink interoperability. > I feel that a lot of the old packet legacy programs have a lot > to offer if the classic TNC is replaced for a better modem. I agree. That's why I spent the last few years writing hostmode drivers for a few types of pactor modems. Unfortunately, I seem to have stumbled across these needs long after the fact. In a way, the work has been a bit of a waste of time - maybe 3 users world wide that I know of, that are possibly playing with the code. > net2kiss ... I wrote a kernel interface for the Linux version of JNOS, allowing you to directly attach JNOS to baycom boards via the linux kernel modules - WITHOUT the need for 'net2kiss' and 'pseudo-tty' devs. > Could that be extended to ALE ? I'm sure it could be. Anyways, I just thought i would jump in. I don't think using MultiPSK as a modem will be difficult. BUT, this time to better make sure I don't waste precious time working on something no one will use, I need to know from more than just one person, what should I concentrate my efforts on then. That's the big dilemna for me. What do I focus on ? Too many protocols to choose from now, and lots of division between their camps. That frustrates the development part. But having something like MultiPSK would actually solve that for me, since all I'm doing is interfacing to a modem, so in a way I would not have to worry about the different modes, considering they all do the same thing in the long run. Regards, Maiko Langelaar / VE4KLM * http://www.langelaar.net/projects/jnos2
