[Xastir] Xastir on multibands

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

Er... ah... this reeks of "router" functionality.  Oh.  Sorry.  Forgot. 
  We don't ROUTE ax.25.  Now if we were using tcp/ip or ipv6...

Sorry.  I got carried away.

gerry

Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Bill Vodall - WA7NWP wrote:
> 
> 
>>Will Xastir function as a multiband gateway?
>>
>>Assume a Linux box has two AX25 ports.  One on 144.39 and the other, for example,
>>on 145.01.   If a station on 145.01 sends a message for a station that Xastir has heard
>>on the 144.39 channel, will Xastir forward the message on RF.
>>
>>This is RF to RF instead of Internet to RF.
>>
>>If it does, this could open up some new frequencies for APRS.
> 
> 
> I can see uses for this for satellite gateways (but might want to
> limit the direction of the gatewaying through Xastir), and perhaps
> for alternate frequencies as discussed where people could hang out
> on a quieter frequency (or higher speed!) but still get messages
> through.
> 
> I think this would be relatively easy to implement, but I don't think
> Xastir has this capability now.
> 
> What I'm most interested in is getting a discussion going as to what
> sorts of controls we might need in order to do this properly.  We
> might need some sort of switchboard where we could define which
> connections were allowed, and in what direction?  Any ideas on this
> to keep it simple?  Would we want to gateway more than just messages
> through?  If so, how to implement/control this?
> 
> Note that Xastir could also quite easily handle more than ten
> interfaces.  Ten is the default in the code but I think it's defined
> by a constant that can be easily changed.
> 
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