Date: Sat, 11 Sep 93 04:30:05 PDT
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TCP-Group Digest Sat, 11 Sep 93 Volume 93 : Issue 234
Today's Topics:
AX.25 and/or SLIP
UK IP Addresses Again
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 14:58:19 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mr. Sampson <ssampson@sabea-oc.af.mil>
Subject: AX.25 and/or SLIP
To: TCP-Group@UCSD.Edu
> ...all slip'ed to Gracilis standalone switches that are handling all
> the AX.25 and RF work.
Well my shift in direction is prompted by the same reasons basically. I've
been playing with the X1J stuff and they are nice routers. Your advantage
is that you have slip to the RF side. Maybe a design direction would be to
change the kiss code in X1J to slip. The node software is already fully
configurable via connect, so you can change txdelay etc, that way. The
command byte doesn't seem that useful here. It would be nice to get the same
function you have (AX.25 stripped off) on the slip line, but I don't know if
that's possible in the z-80 code space left.
> One of these days I'll get around to writing a driver for the pc-plug-in
> version of the Gracilis PackeTen switch for NetBSD/BSDI...
Yep, I have one on the shelf collecting dust. I don't think there's enough
intellegence on the card to work with a multitasker. Probably best to buffer
it with a 286 junker.
> Others have done work on AX.25 in the kernel, but I haven't seen any bits
> yet.
I took the if_sl.c stuff and renamed it if_ax.c and then went through all the
modules touching things to make it 'ax' this-n-that, rather than 'sl'. Then
I built a kernel (about 5 times - ha). The idea was to start with the slip
base and get it attachable, then modify it as needed. So far I haven't been
able to do an 'ifconfig ax0' and get anything other than 'no such interface'.
I'll have a few more beers and think about it...
Steve
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 11:33:59 CET
From: BARRY TITMARSH <BTITMARS%ESOC.BITNET@vm.gmd.de>
Subject: UK IP Addresses Again
To: TCP-GROUP <TCP-GROUP@ucsd.edu>,
I have again just down loaded from UCSD.EDU the
new WW ampr addresses.
Guess what. My UK host is not there.
It still seems that the UK hosts are not being updated, to the Global server.
Please can the UK Coordinator get the files upto date
I just spent 3 hours getting my DNS on my UNIX hubs up ampr><bitnet gate,
after chaseing arround trying to find Why my own DNS had not found
its own Hostname ??? Arggggg,
Another F$%##@ wast of my time.
Another note..
I have used the DNS robot at ucsd.edu to add my missing hosts
but this dont seem to work
Any info on this problem.?? or am i doing it wrong?
Barry
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 11:07:32 -0700
From: rhorer@medics.jsc.nasa.gov (Kyle Rhorer)
Subject: Undeliverable Mail
To: tcp-group@ucsd.edu
Sorry for posting this, but as you can see direct mail bounced twice.
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From: rhorer@medics.jsc.nasa.gov (Kyle Rhorer)
Subject: Re: TCP-Group Digest V93 #232
At 18:05 9/9/93 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>It shouldn't be hard to do AX.25 in a BSD based kernel, apart from the
>arp problem, which at least with source you can fix. Getting UI
>frame AX.25 KISS support into a Linux kernel took me 40 minutes
>of attacking the slip driver. Now adding a real SOCK_AX25 layer
>will be more fun.
>
>Alan
Please keep me updated on this. I am currently running Wampes to make the
interface between my Linux box and my TNC, but I would prefer to have KISS
support directly in the kernel so that it isn't such a pain to set up
e-mail forwarding, etc. Also, I don't care for Wampes's policy of creating
userids for folks who connect for the first time. I would like to have the
control to do that myself. Anyway, I have been wondering when someone
would decide to put KISS/AX.25 support in the kernel! I would have done it
myself, but I've been a DOS programmer too long and I'm having trouble
adapting to programming for Unix.
Thanks & 73,
Kyle
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