Hello,
What I would like to do is connect two packet stations to a
single TNC. One station will be hosted with a linux machine, the
other hosted with a windows machine. The two stations will have
different call signs associated with them.
My idea is this:
-Connect the TNC to a serial port on the linux machine, run
kissattach.
-Connect the windows and linux machines together using the
serial ports. Run kiss mode software on the windows station,
run kissattach on the linux machine on that serial interface.
-Route the packets to/from the windows station with
axparms -forward. If you set up all the ax ports right, it
should forward the packets to and from the windows station.
Doing things this way will allow arbitrary software to be able to
run on the windows station, since it will think that it is
connected directly to the TNC.
The big concern I have is the kiss connection from the linux
station to the windows station. I've read over the kiss spec,
and it would *seem* that it would work. But if it does seem that
way, then it would also seem that you could connect two TNCs
directly together and have them complement each other, i.e. all
packets received on one TNC will be transmitted by the other, and
vice versa. That doesn't seem right to me for some reason.
So my question is this: will this work? I'd also be interested
to hear of any better ideas that the list may have to implement
something like this.
Thanks,
Chris Ruffin
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