[Xastir] Feature bloat?

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Steve Dimse wrote:

> That's not the point, doesn't matter if you have a hundred digis and a home
> reception range of one mile. If a home station hears a packet, and no one else
> does, why not digi it? Think of it as a smart RELAY...

Understand.


> >Ummm.... Xastir has this last feature.  It has a dupe queue just for
> >igating->RF.  If a packet already was gated to RF, Xastir won't.
> >
> How long does it wait before transmitting?

It doesn't.


> If it sends right away, then this
> implementation accomplishes nothing.

Well, not nothing, but almost nothing.


> Is there a way to designate primary vs
> secondary IGates? A primary IGate ought to transmit immediately, only the
> secondaries should wait. Is there a random delay? If not, multiple Xastirs could
> be transmit at the same time.

Yep.

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