[Xastir] Xastir on multibands

[John D. Hays]

You are right ... I guess I was thinking about intelligent AX25 digipeating.
As far as a next generation network, that's why we have IP ... we have the
IPv4 44.xx.xx.xx network and almost all OSes now support it... its a matter
of getting the ham community to use it, probably still encapsulated in AX25
for legal ID (like I was doing 10 years ago).  It is the higher bandwidth
that will make it more popular like using Icom's D-STAR system or 802.11a/b
equipment.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerry Creager N5JXS [mailto:gerry.creager at tamu.edu]
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 4:53 PM
To: John D. Hays
Cc: xastir at krypton.hscs.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir on multibands


ax.25 is a non-routed protocol.  Any routing done, such as the APRS SSID
routing, is at the application layer.  And that's technically a bad
place to do that sort of thing.

For a stopgap, it's not too bad, but the next-generation network should
use a network protocol that is at least still undergoing some development.

gerry

John D. Hays wrote:
> Can't the router functionality be done in the AX25 package on Linux?  I
> think what we may want is APRS message forwarding (e.g. If xastir "knows"
> that K7DST is on port ax5 then it will forward messages to that port).
>
> John K7VE
>
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