Ron Stordahl wrote:
>
> 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?
Hi Ron and all.
Per the AX.25 spec (I believe) aliases and callsigns are limited to 6
characters. I have burned a number of TheNet 1.0, TheNet Plus, and
TheNet X-1J4 with 6 character aliases with no problems. All the nodes
I've seen print 6 character aliases in their tables and nodes lists.
Perhaps a non-printing character snuck into that field? Just a thought.
Second, Re: your earlier message Ron, I think you are correct when you
say that if your Linux node were set to respond to N5IN + any SSID when
you have other stations on the same frequency using your call plus some
SSID that there would be interesting problems. What I've seen happen is
usually an agly race between the stations sharing the callsign+SSID with
the end result being an FRMR packet generated by one or both and a nasty
disconnect! As a result, the following unwritten rule appears to be
adhered to by most node-ops in these parts:
Callsigns aren't used as node aliases due to the SSID confusion caused
by Net/ROM's allowance of any SSID to be used in conjunction with its
alias.
Third, Re: Tomi and your mention of the first callsign in nrports being
the call broadcast as the node callsign. That is exactly how I have
N0NB-10 assigned currently. No other services listen using N0NB-10 and
it is only useful to another node (again I have not tested this to be
absolutely sure of its behavior).
Finally, thanks Jonathan for seconding my method! (BTW, I use Notus
Lotes at work as well and found that when I send email over the 'Net I
try to use courier font and hit <Enter> often! It is ugly for Internet
email.)
73, de Nate >>
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