On Sat, 27 May 2000, Steve Hale wrote:
> 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!
>
As far I can remember I have run on a similar problem in a mixed
environment made with PC/Flexnet and Linux machines.
First of all check that you have set with bpqparams -d the correct
multicast address for both machines (I don't remember which is but
using your favorite ethernet sniffer you can discover what is the correct
one).
Then especially if you are using cheap RTL8xxx boards enable promiscious
mode on the ethernet. You have to add a promisc keyword on the ifconfig
of ethernet board.
I know that enablig promiscious mode isn't the best solution but if you
have almost bpq traffic and standard tcp traffic on the ethernet
is not a problem.
BTW configure also the IP address of bpq0 (even with a 10.x.x.x address),
and add the decoy IP in the hosts table with a decoy name, especially
if you are running sendmail on your system.
73
Mike
