Re: Alias in ax25 util help

[Ron Stordahl]

>Hello Ron
>
>No it wouldn't break anything for you. The point is, is it would give you a
new option, you
>don't have to use it. It would be used essentially for listening for the
aliases, if you recall
>an alias is still just a callsign, I used G4KLX for illustration, but it
would probably be:
>
>[ZURICH-$ VIA 144]
>
>to allow connects to ZURICH-0 through to ZURICH-15. Since $ is not a valid
SSID I
>don't see it could break any existing configs.
>
>Jonathan  HB9/G4KLX in Zurich, by the way.


Minor point but aliases are limited to 5 characters I believe.  I tried 6 in
an eprom burn for a TheNet/X1J4 node and as I recall surrounding TheNet
nodes only showed the first 5 in their routing tables.  This is some time
ago so I might have the details a little wrong.  Does Linux work correctly
with 6?

Ron N5IN