I've never used rxecho, so I may be wrong about this, but wouldn't it
just dump everything heard on port A to port B? The digi function needs
to be a bit more selective and only pass frames based on the presence
of a digi field that matches the outbound port's callsign.
John
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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jose A. Amador" writes:
>
> I wonder, for "selective" digipeating, doesn't rxecho solve this
>problem ? In its config file you can specify what you want
>(etc/ax25/rxecho.conf), if you need to be selective. I used it for a
>time to connect JNOS kiss ports to the kernel ax25 support. Now I
>use net2kiss, and I find it neater for my purposes, but rxecho did a
>good job.
>
>Jose, CO2JA
>
>On 4 Nov 99 at 8:34, John Ackermann wrote:
>
>> I also use axdigi and it works well. But it needs one change -- it's
>> an all-or-nothing tool in that when it's running, it allows wide-open
>> digipeating from any port on the system to any other port. I've had a
>> few lusers do Very Bad Things to our network when they discovered, for
>> example, that they could digi from the slow 1200 baud port to the 19.2kb
>> port. We need a little config file that specifies allowable input to
>> output mappings.
>>
>> Having said that, I *don't* commit to do the mods (though I might give it
>> a try in my spare time).
>>
>> John N8UR
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> ----
>> In message <002601bf2695$785ce640$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Phil Maley" writes
>:
>> >Hi Chris
>> >
>> >I am using axdigi on a gateway system to digipeat between the RF
>> >ports and the axip wormhole port. It works very well. I guess it
>> >was a philosophical decision to remove a "user space" application
>> >from the kernel even though to me as a user it would seem to fall
>> >in the same category as kernel ip forwarding. I don't know of any
>> >alternatives to axdigi.
>> >
>> >73
>> >Phil VK6AD
>> >
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Ruffin
>> >> Sent: Thursday, 4 November 1999 13:50
>> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> Subject: axdigi vs. other methods?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> What is the best way to handle digipeating with linux? I've
>> >> looked at the linux-hams archive and it seems that there used to
>> >> be support for this in the kernel, but then there is axdigi,
>> >> which I find odd not to be in a debian package. I figure that
>> >> there would be axdigi in a package somewhere if there wasn't
>> >> kernel support for it. In fact, I saw on the archive where it
>> >> had been "taken out," which I don't particularly understand.
>> >>
>> >> So, before I install axdigi (I hate installing non-packagized
>> >> software)- is there another way to do this with the kernel?
>> >>
>> >> Chris
>> >> --
>> >> Chris Ruffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >> http://www.ece.msstate.edu/~ruff/
