[Xastir-dev] Help testing messaging

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Wed, 18 May 2005, Tom Russo wrote:
>
> > > Format for WHO-IS is just "WHO-IS" as the destination and someone's
> > > callsign as the message body.  A successful test will be a return
> > > message from the WHO-IS server and the ack's getting recognized both
> > > ways.
> >
> > Here's what I saw (my outgoing path was obviously overkill, but I wanted
> > to be sure I hit an igate quickly):
> > 0:TX -> KM5VY>APX151,WIDE3-3::WHO-IS   :WE7U{AC}00
> > 0:TNC-> KM5VY>APX151,WIDE3-2::WHO-IS   :WE7U{AC}00
> > 0:TNC-> W5MPZ-1>APS221,WIDE3-2:}WHO-IS>APJSWI,TCPIP,W5MPZ-1*::KM5VY    :ackAC}
> >
> > so I got an ack from WHO-IS and xastir recognized it, changing the shading of
> > the message in the dialog.
>
> The only thing I see strange above is the "00" at the end of the
> transmit.  I don't think Xastir should be doing that, but I'd have
> to go look at the reply-ack protocol again to be sure.  It doesn't
> appear to hurt anything in this case though.

I found this via findu raw packets:

 KM5VY>APX151,WIDE3*,qAo,K5MTN::WHO-IS :K5MTN{AB}
 KM5VY>APX151,WIDE3-1*,qAo,K5MTN::WHO-IS :ack00
 KM5VY>APX151,WIDE3-1*,qAo,K5MTN::WHO-IS :WE7U{AC}00
 KM5VY>APX151,WIDE3-2*,qAo,K5MTN::WHO-IS :WE7U{AC}00
 KM5VY>APX151,WIDE3-2*,qAo,K5MTN::WHO-IS :ack01

You had already communicated with the WHO-IS server and got an ack00
back from it, so sending "{AC}00" in the next message to the server
was the proper thing for Xastir to do via the reply-ack protocol.

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