In the past I have run aprsD on my laptop, had Xastir connect to it so other stations could connect to my feed. This way if I shut down Xastir it does not break everyone else's connection to that feed.
Guy On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Curt, WE7U <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Craig Anderson wrote: > > As Jason says, turning on the server ports is very easy, with a >> few gotcha's. The default server port that xastir opens is 2023, >> but the default port that pops up in the "Internet Server" window >> to create the connection is 14580. So change the port number in >> the "Internet Server" window to be 2023 and you're off and >> running. >> > > Interconnecting only two Xastir instances may not get you where you > want to go, depending on what traffic you want to appear on each > LAN. If you're trying to gate to RF on each side, Xastir only does > that automatically for messages and ack's/nak's. You'd have to put > set up additional gating using at least 3-character patterns in the > nws-stations.txt file in order to gate more to RF. > > I'd suggest running a real server like aprsd on one box, then > connecting both Xastir's to that. If you want to cross-connect > traffic that might be your best bet. > > -- > Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> > APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> > Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown > Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. > The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > -- 73 Guy Story KC5GOI [email protected] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
