Richard:
I am new to this part of linux, I have run TNOS for quite some time
but have never putzed around with the AX.25 stuff in LINUX.
I have RH 6.1 and am getting ready to install it, I pulled down the
AX25 how to and tried to follow it for RH 6.0 (which I also have) and
appeared to have made a misserable mess out of it. I was able to
compile a kernel and I also did the modules thing but that is as
far as I got, I would like to find a good set of steps for doing this
under the 6.0 or 6.1 rev.
I can see that you are having problems but are much farther down
the road than I am. I really just want to set up a linux box to handle
IP (UDP) in AX.25 frames. But I also in the end want to keep track
of mobiles off of several towers and figure out which tower a mobile
is on and route the packets to that tower. Right now I just want to
get to where you are with your second problem (assigning IP addr
to a port and sending ax25 frames) then I can press on.
I am assuming that there is a load of differences between the HOW
TO and the way you do it with the newer RH versions...
Tnx in advanced
Chuck
Kp4djt.
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 17:52
> To: linux-hams
> Subject: AX25 and Redhat 6.1
>
>
>
> Greetings everyone,
>
> Over the last couple of weeks I have been trying to get AX25 going on
> Redhat
> 6.1. I am unable to comple ax25-utils-2.1.42a.tar.gz on the base system.
> I get
> all sorts of compile errors. In the end I gave up after manually editing
> most
> of the files and including the errno.h file where needed. It also appears
> that
> the sockets.h file included by default was not the correct one to use. I
> got
> most of it to compile but just gave up eventually.
>
> I have also tried installing from the RPM's. (ax25-utils-2-1-42a-3 and
> ax25-utils-2-1-42a-9) This resulted in a different problem. No matter
> what I
> did the call program would give me an error to say that none of my ports
> were
> active. Well the TNC was in Kiss mode and receiving packets. When I did
> an
> ifconfig | more I was able to see ax0 was receiving frames and it was
> reported
> by the kernel as up. In my book this is active.
>
> In the end I tried to give the port an IP address with the ifconfig
> command. I
> could not believe it when everything flashed, the TNC went into TX etc. I
> am
> now able to call my local BBS and everything is great....
>
> However, one problem remains. I have an IP address assigned to each of my
> ax
> ports. This is a problem as I run Samba and a whole host of other
> packages on
> my Linux box and I do not wish to see them appear on RF. I cannot delete
> them
> from the routing table as they are interfaces, not routes and I do not
> really
> want to firewall the machine. If I mark the interface as down, I will not
> be
> able to use AX25 either.... My security policy was to be so simple - No IP
> transport...
>
> The ideal solution is to somehow remove IP from the interface and leave
> ax25 up.
> Has anyone worked out how to solve this problem? I notice there are a few
> other
> people who have got AX25 running with an IP address.
>
> Thanks
> Richard
> VK2HDJ
>
