On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 12:43:33PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > > On Feb 1, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Tom Russo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I believe server-to-server gating is not supposed to be done, as it > > can > > cause loops that are a Bad Thing. Also, it would be a Very Bad > > Thing if > > folks were to gate between servers of different types (firenet and > > aprs-is, > > for example). > > > What about the case where the "server" is xastir running on my other > computer, and I'd like to get traffic to RF that way? When the > students asked that was the use-case that came to mind, mostly because > I've wished I could do that before.
As long as you guard against the other cases, that could be a good functionality. But there's a reason it's not there now, because mostly "server" means APRS-IS or something like it. It's pretty important not to even allow the user to make the mistake of connecting multiple feeds together. If you're gonna allow xastir-xastir server cross-gating, you have to make sure that it isn't possible to do the other accidentally (or cluelessly, or maliciously...). It's presactly because Xastir won't gate LAN data to RF that I run my Sheevaplug TNC-sharing set-up. Well, that and because it was fun. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM In some cultures what I do would be considered normal. -- Ineffective daily affirmation _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev
