On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 01:19:37AM +0100, Dave Staniforth wrote:
> What has happened is that if a user connects into my node via the
> PCFLEXNET node, then it seems to affect the AX25 timers for anyone
> else connecting into my node direct.
This is expected behaviour: you cannot have user-to-user connections
with DAMA. Everbody on the channel has to use the DAMA master, which
isn't much a problem with Flexnet, BTW: instead of connecting dl1bke
directly you just connect dl1bke via db0anp (db0anp the DAMA master
here). The Flexnet node does hop-to-hop acknowledge for every
digipeated connection, hence it will not lead to additional
packet loss. Quite the opposite: you don't have a hidden station
problem anymore -- assuming the DAMA master has a good location,
but it wouldn't make much sense to build a network node otherwise. ;-)
> The data then builds up and none is sent to the direct user.
> The data for the user connected via the PCFLEXNET node is sent
> OK when the PCFLEXNET node polls my node, but not the direct user.
Your remote user should get its data as soon as Flexnet polls you,
but the DAMA slave (your station) will not send command poll frames
or react to them w/o the DAMA flag set...
73,
Joerg
