> Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 20:42:34 +0100 (BST)
> From: Dirk Koopman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: USB TNC
> [...]
> > If you use Ethernet, perhaps you should use IP as well.
> >
> > That way I could think about being able to use any Internet-connected
> > TNC in the universe, (firewalls and filtering notwithstanding).
>
> actually what you do (and this would be serious if we could get the packet
> sizes up above 256 bytes) is output BPQ ethernet II packets which are
> essentially 5 bytes of padding and a raw ax25 frame off air together with
> the ethernet II pid of 0x8ff.
Yes, but if you put an IP header in there as well, I don't need to be
on the same LAN as my TNC. Sort of an AX.25 variant of, for example,
a print server.
-tjs
