[Xastir] TX to the Internet

[Scott Ryan, AB8KN]

Thanks, Curt, I probably should have tried that before posting to the list.

One more quick question, is port 10151 correct to use for transmit?  I
understand that this port is unfiltered and there are others to filter to
limit the traffic received so I'm guessing that 10151 is correct.

Scott

> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Scott Ryan, AB8KN wrote:
>
>> I have configured an Internet
>> interface and have connected to a fairly local APRS server.  I was blown
>> away by the traffic.  (Yes, I know, filtering would be agood thing.)  I
>> do
>> have the "allow transmit" or "transmit enable" button selected but my
>> packets still seem to take the RF route.  All this leads to my question:
>>
>> Can I use the Internet interface to TX?
>
> Yes.  By default, Xastir will transmit on all interfaces that have
> transmit enabled, assuming your global transmit is also enabled.
> More than likely you're transmitting both directly to the internet
> now and to RF.  You could disable transmit on your RF interface to
> test this out.
>
> If you want a way to transmit weather only on the 'net, but transmit
> your posits on both, we don't have a way to do that, nor is it
> planned.  You could run two instances of Xastir though, one
> connected to the internet and your WX station, the other connected
> to RF and perhaps the internet as well.  If you do that, run them as
> different users so that they won't fight over the same set of
> configuration files.
>
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