[Xastir] [Fwd: Re: [aprssig] ID requirements...]

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
>
> William McKeehan wrote:
> > Is there anyway to implement Bob's suggestion in Xastir with a soundcard TNC?
>
> Probably; I've not thought about it much.  However, realistically, it's
> silly.  ID via a non-path beacon (local only) every 10 minutes and be
> done with it.  This is an example of overengineering with no
> demonstrable benefit save electrons expended.
>
> gerry

There.  I think I reversed the order of those two messages so that
it makes sense to me (that's a dig at Gerry).

The first thing I thought of was to create more than one interface
and tie them all to the same AX.25 interface.  You could set
different paths for each, but then I remembered that the timing
would be the same for all.

If you set up different paths on one interface, you'll just cycle
through them in round-robin fashion.

I suppose you could set up a cron to call "beacon" to send a beacon
out that interface at specified intervals, sharing the AX.25
interface with Xastir.  That should work just fine.

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