[Xastir-dev] Server to server gating?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, russo at bogodyn.org wrote:

> As long as you guard against the other cases, that could be a good
> functionality.  But there's a reason it's not there now, because mostly
> "server" means APRS-IS or something like it.  It's pretty important not
> to even allow the user to make the mistake of connecting multiple feeds
> together.  If you're gonna allow xastir-xastir server cross-gating, you have
> to make sure that it isn't possible to do the other accidentally (or
> cluelessly, or maliciously...).

This is very scary from a protect the APRS-INET point of view.
There have historically been problems caused by this sort of thing.
As long as this is thought about carefully and addressed, the extra
functionality of gating to RF could be a good thing in limited
circumstances.  Around here they sometimes want to gate all of the
1200-baud 2m traffic to 9600-baud 440 in order to have something
more to watch.  There are other limited uses like gating a separate
public event APRS frequency to the main frequency for the length of
an event.

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