On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 10:09:16AM -0800, Cathryn Mataga wrote:
> Or do we need the callsigns in every single packet? US-wise, I thought we only
> needed to ID every 10 minuts.
Well, in Australia I believe we are expected to ID every 10 minutes during
a QSO. I suppose that every 10 minutes should be good enough for packet
too.
> >Is Van Jacobsen compression used? I haven't used TCP/IP over AX.25 yet,
> I would think that PPP is a little different that ax25, in that there are only two
>ends. Where
> ax25 really is a LAN with lots of ip addresses on the channel. So, I'm not sure if
>the
> PPP header compression would work. I'm pretty sure that PPP goes through a special
True, but VJ has also been used for SLIP links so it's not PPP specific.
I don't know enough about it; it might still be point-to-point specific.
Just a passing thought.
Hamish
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