Patrick, et alia: Quoting Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 06:33:34PM +0000, Bill Vodall WA7NWP wrote: > > > > Is anybody using this tool to connect Convers to IRC? > > > > Anybody looked at connecting Jabber to Convers? > > > > I would think it shouldn't be that hard. If you have TCP/IP set up on > your ham box, you should be able to run an IRC server or a Jabber > server. The Jabber side might even be easier since the Jabber server > supports gateways to other services by design. > > I would have some concerns about connecting Convers and IRC/Jabber unless > I had complete control over the people using the system (to ensure they > were licensed amateurs if connecting over the Internet outside the > 44.x.x.x net). Indeed I can find agreement with this, however, there is a particular mechanism that might work to afford a comfortable stance for containing the allowance of Ham's to legally and lawfully connect to the Internet. I am contemplating the purchase of a 1.2GHz Radio at the Hamvention this year, and intend to connect it to one of the ports on my Cisco router, which will be Internet connected, and the concept of preservation regarding the integrity of users to cross from the Internet to the RF Data Network and vice versa will be likely resolved as follows: In order for someone to cross from the Internet to the RF Data Network I would need to create an account on the router for them, so they access an encrypted VPN connection (encryption occurrent between their client and the router) with traffic being unencrypted when forwarded to the RF Data Network. I am still researching this, but I believe that an encrypted VPN session from the RF Data Network could be used, provided the encryption passwords were to be published in advance (I intend to do so on a website), prior to the user having ability to use the connection. The publication of the passwords, call signs, as well as usernames would be deliberate and well in advance of the enablement of the accounts being made accessible, and continually published until the amateur operator requested to discontinue his usage of the VPN. Additionally, I would intend to limit what website or other access was capable such that no commercial activity was transmitted over the RF Data Network. I wonder if Icom is contemplating any sort of 2.4GHz D-STAR equipment that would be cable of transmitting digital voice, as well as data, and thirdly be able to be switched into a "non amateur data mode" such that it could be used for 2.4Ghz data transfer in commercial mode, and also have an Amateur Radio mode. > > > -- > > Patrick Ouellette [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amateur Radio: KB8PYM > Living life to a Jimmy Buffett soundtrack > "Crank the amp to 11, this needs more cowbell - and a llama wouldn't hurt > either" > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USN(RC), N3GWG Beverly Hills, CA mobile: (310) 358-0202 Nextel: 124*233172*14 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
