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
