Hi Stuart,

> A silly question, is the destination address in a UI frame case-sensitive?

>From the AX.25 2.2 spec, section 2.2.13, Address-Field Encoding:

"Except for the Secondary Station Identifier (SSID), the address field
should be made up of upper-case alpha and numeric ASCII characters
only."

> 1. Using the reserved bits.  There's two bits in the last octet of each
>    SSID, which are normally set to '1'.  I could use one of those to
>    indicate this is a "unicast" address; setting that to 0 would mean
>    the message is being "multicasted" or "broadcasted".

I'll note that the AX.25 'listen' source code uses these two bits in
decoding. One is used to identify "EAX25" and the other "DAMA". It
might be worth looking into what those are all about before reusing
either or both of these bits.

Hope that helps.

Martin.
KD6YAM

> --
> Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)
>
> I haven't lost my mind...
>   ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

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