[Xastir] Serial KISS interface - long delays

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:38:50PM -0500, J. Lance Cotton wrote:
> I just got my TNC to a spot where I can see the status lights on it recently 
> and I have noticed that when I run the TNC on the Xastir Serial KISS mode, 
> the "Sta" light of my KPC3 stays lit for a good 2-3 seconds for sending a 
> single packet, even one as short as a message ack.
> 
> It makes it essentially a 2-3 second delay in transmitting anything to the 
> TNC. Is this known? Is it related to the problem (now fixed) where internet 
> interfaces were getting data sent to them one byte per TCP/IP packet?
> 
> TNC is in KISS mode and the serial port is running at 9600 bps.

Is the channel busy, and are you using the correct carrier detect
method? Are you using the kernel AX.25 with KISS mode, or XASTIR's
internal KISS?


Hamish
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