On Thu, 14 May 2009 14:33:22 -0700, "John Hays" <j...@hays.org> said:

> I don't the reason for it, but I suspect that it was to support DD  
> callsign to IP mapping and was just carried over to DV.  Which is  
> silly anyway, since the DD format is Ethernet encapsulation, not IP  
> encapsulation.  What if I wanted to run XNS (Xerox Networking Service)  
> or Novell's IPX over D-STAR, its Ethernet but not IP.  

Has anyone actually tried that?  I could brush up on my Novell skills
from 1992.  

Never saw a more stable fileserver in my entire IT/telco professional
career as a Novell 3.11 server.  :-)

Nate WY0X
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