On 5/12/2011 9:42 AM, Jeremy McDermond wrote:
You do not have to authenticate to *receive* data from APRS-IS. Tier2 servers *are* set up so that you have to authenticate ("be verified") to *send* any data through the servers. You can check to see if you're logged in by looking on the server's status page under the "verified" column. This doesn't prevent you sending a posit packet to show where you are for the m/ filter, but it won't be propagated to anywhere, and again you have to send a posit to make an m/ filter work.
Almost correct, but not quite. You must authenticate, but do not need to be "verified" to receive data. javAPRSsrvr will not send anything out to a connected client until the USER xxxx PASS nnnn has been received. If the PASS is -1 (or otherwise incorrect), you end up authenticated, but not verified and data will be forthcoming.
I know I'm picking nits, but I'm also trying to make sure people understand that they can't just connect to a javAPRSSrvr port and expect to receive data. They must send in a USER xxxx PASS nnnn string no matter what the port is configured to do. At least, that's been my experience.
Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32 _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
