On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 08:59:14PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Tom Russo <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 10:18:36PM +0000, we recorded a bogon-computron > > collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > >> I never have ? inet > rf ?enabled ? that would mean all the inet traffic > >> would get transmitted out onto RF - I wouldn't want that. > > > > No, it wouldn't. > > > > INET->RF only gates to RF messages that are directed from a station heard > > by your igate only on APRS-IS to a station that your igate has heard on RF. > > > > In addition, you can configure it to gate traffic from specific stations > > from > > APRS-IS to RF, but by default it does not do this. > > > > Gating "all the inet traffic" to RF would be a disaster, and there is no > > recent vintage software that would do that no matter what buttons you click. > > There's no recent software with a GUI with buttons that would do that, > but the two lightweight daemons out of Finland, aprx and aprsg, will > do that relatively easily. Both are intended to be used with no > filter when logged into an IS server, but if the user puts a filter in > there such as m/100, everything received within a 100km radius will be > gated to RF (if the software has been configured to send from IS to RF > and if there's no transmit filter on the RF side). So to anyone > trying out aprx or aprsg for the first time - nice little tools, but > be careful!
Eeeek! That's terrible. I hope that's well documented. Since IGates should mostly be bi-directional, it's a shame that someone would create one that can be bi-directional and easily misconfigured to swamp the local RF. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork." - Edward Abbey _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
