On Sat, 27 May 2000, Steve Hale wrote about, BPQ-Ethernet Help?:
> Hi all. I'm trying to setup bpqether and struggling!
>
> I have two linux boxes, one running as a bbs/mailbox (TNOS), the other
> as a general machine.
>
> The two machines have an ethernet connection which works OK. What i want
> to do is to be able to make an ax25 connection over the ethernet (using
> LinKT) to the bbs, or any other station for that matter. To this end i
> have enabled 'BPQ-Ethernet' in both kernels. I have then run:
>
> 'ifconfig bpq0 hw ax25 g6pap-14 up'
>
> on both machines, which has indeed bought up the bpq0 interface.
>
> I don't know what to do next!
bpqparms bpq0 -d XX:XX:XX:XX:XX.XX
Where XX:XX,,, is the "mac" address of the destination machine,
(-d) = destination.
Do that on both machines and it should work.
man bpqparms
might help you a little more.
If there are more questions send me a mail.
>
> The how-to's seem a little sketchy from here. Do i need an entry in
> axports?
A typical ebtry for a BPQ interface would be;
bpq0 PA3GCU-7 9600 256 4 ether1
> How do i 'attatch' the entry??? Where is the 'net.cfg' file refered to
> in the
> 'how-to's'?
net.cfg concerns a dos system i would imagen, (not read the howto on bpq).
>
>
> Any help most appreciated!
I have a few scripts here which i use, if you want them mail me.
>
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> >From Steve Hale
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> ax25: g6pap@gb7ipt.#28.gbr.eu
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Regards Richard
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