"Posting question to DSTAR-GATEWAY & DSTAR DIGITAL"
Does anyone know of an email group for ID-1 users, or ID-1 projects???? Like to join and continue with this project. I am working some events that are rather neat, but I am not sure either one of these reflectors will be to my advantage while I am testing out a couple of things here.... BUT this is what I have done so far... Using the id-1 hooked up to a laptop, perform the following: laptop contains kd4efm-id1 ip: 10.122.66.82 255.0.0.0 DNS set to 10.0.0.1 172.16.0.20 ipconfig says: 10.122.66.82, 172.16.0.7 gw's: 10.0.0.1, and 172.16.0.1 --BK-- using ping, knowing a call sign, pinging the call sign and recording the results.... i.e.: ping ki4swy.dstar.local results: pinging ki4swy.dstar.local [10.94.166.128] with 32 bytes of data reply from 10.122.66.82 Dest. host unreachable (of course 4 times) OBSERVED!!!: ID-1 responded RPT?:KJ4ACN G NOW, using nx4y.dstar.local again same statement, but 10.131.80.216, and of course, Dest. Host UNRch. OBSERVED!!!: ID-1 responded RPT?:W4RNT WOW, W4RNT responded..... tried yet another know user, WD4LWG, same statements, this time RPT?:NI4CE shows on the display during the 4 ping packets..... OK, now I am seeing something here, knowing one's id, it's possible to ping a person based on the "<pcname>.dstar.local" and observing the output... so for grins and giggles, let's ping Steve NU5D!!! yup, same statements, but now I see on the display: (pinging nu5d.dstar.local) RPT?:K5CTX for each known user call sign, I get a response (if that IS WHAT IT IS??) using the information I supplied above... Question is, even though the laptop says, destination host unreachable, that would be due to the internal network versus the real world, HOW is the gateway forwarding the information to the other gateway??? EVEN IF THE END USER HAS THEIR ID-1 on, yet no ping reply, but the gateway responds back RPT?:<gateway call sign> I would guess the dstar gateway daemon is doing what it is supposed to do, ROUTING the ping request, much like callsign routing...???... Thanks for reading this, but I find this to be very neat and wild! PS: I pinged Gerry Dalton too, display says: RPT?:K5TIT Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM / AFA4TH FL / WQFK-894 Fla. D-Star Tech Support Group www.florida-dstar.info Polk ARES A.E.C. www.polkemcomm.org Train Safety: There is a train coming in either direction at any time, ALWAYS stop, look, & listen. NEVER STOP ON A TRACK, NO MATTER WHAT!
