[Xastir-Dev] Linux aprsdigi-2.4.3 is now available.

[Alan Crosswell]

[Sorry for the cross-post.  This went to aprsnews as well...]

Announcing N2YGK's Linux aprsdigi-2.4.3.                April 5, 2003

Release 2.4.3 of N2YGK's advanced APRS digipeater is now available for
free under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL) at
ftp://ftp.tapr.org/aprssig/linux/aprsdigi-2.4.3.tgz.
[Find it now at http://www.users.cloud9.net/~alan/ham/aprs/]

This release has the following new features:

- UDP/IP (v4 and v6) unicast and multicast (ASM) support.  Useful for
   connecting aprsdigi's over the Internet, WLANs, etc.
   (Note: this is *not* TCP support as used by APRS-IS, aprsd, etc.)
   Both transparent and "3rd party" tunneling are supported.
- Budlist to permit/deny digipeating of traffic for individuals or groups of
   AX.25 and IP sources.  IP budlists are helpful when using IP multicast!
- Interfaces may be set to transmit- or receive-only.
- Interfaces may be set to disable retransmission of received packets on
   the same interface (one-armed routing).
- Unix FIFO supported as an interface type.  Mostly useful for debugging.
- Bug fixed that caused aprsdigi to crash upon TRACEn-n callsign insertion
   when the digipeater list was full.

As well as these existing features:

- Digipeater callsign substitution (e.g. RELAY replaced w/N0CLU-12).
- WIDE, WIDEn-n, TRACE, and TRACEn-n.
- As many radio interfaces as you can plug into your Linux machine
   with flexible gatewaying between them.
- Special handling for Mic-Encoder, Kenwood TH-D7, and TheNet X1J4,
including
   SSID-based digipeating.
- Suppression of duplicate and looping packets.
- Works with Linux 2.4 kernel AX.25 network stack.  This means any AX.25
   interface supported by the kernel will work, not just a TNC2 clone.
   Examples include all the BAYCOM interfaces (BAYPAC, PICPAR, PICSER,
etc.),
   soundcards, 8530 SCC cards, any serial port KISS TNC, etc.

Aprsdigi is Copyright (c) 1996,1997,1999,2001,2002,2003 Alan Crosswell
n2ygk at weca.org