[Xastir-dev] IGATE

[Mark White]

On Tue, 01/25/2005, 08:40PM, Curt Mills wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Mark White wrote:
> 
> > Well, I switched from the Debian unstable xastir to running it from CVS
> > a couple of weeks ago and yesterday I noticed that local RF traffic
> > wasn't getting igated to the internet.  After attaching gdb a doing a
> > little debugging, it appears a variable name got changed at some point.
> > In igate.c:output_igate_net(), 'operate_as_an_igate' is checked before
> > allowing rf->inet traffic.  This gets initialized from the
> > NET_RUN_AS_IGATE config var.  However, interface_gui.c sets
> > 'device_igate_options', therefore enabling or disabling igate
> > functionality in the GUI has no effect.  Manually changing the config
> > file var works of course.
> 
> Be aware that there's a global switch for igating in
> File->Configure->Defaults, plus individual switches in each
> interface config dialog.  Nobody else has had this problem, and
> nothing has been changed in those areas of code for quite some time.
> Please check again to make sure that this is a real bug.
> 
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Ahhh...I see.  The global switch in the default settings must be enabled
otherwise the setting of the individual interface switch is ignored.
That's what confused me.  I must've set this in the past but forgot
about it.  Sorry about that :-/

Thanks
Mark KE4QKT