Hi Richard,
I am using the _same_ IP number on all ports (except for two on the
ethernet; eth0 and eth0:0, one is for my internal net, and one official
to the internet). Careful routing set up should take care of routing to
the differnt ports.
73/Kjell sm7gvf
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>
> 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
