[Xastir] Digipeating

[Jason Winningham]

On Sep 1, 2004, at 7:10 AM, hasan schiers wrote:

> 1. Be an effective aprs client with full igate performance. Xastir will
> clearly do this.
>
> 2. Be an effective SMART aprs digi

You've listed 3 different functions: digi, igate, and client.  While 
the digi and igate functions may be logically combined into a single 
"server" entity, be it hardware or daemon, I don't think that the 
client functionality should be rolled into a server.  The functions are 
too different, and you start getting into the monolithic "one 
applications does everything" realm, which, IMO, is not a good idea.

xastir is the best client I've seen, but IMO the digipeating and igate 
functionality for a major APRS node should be a separate application.  
Of course, I'm an old-school unix guy, so if it can't run on a headless 
box and be controlled from the command line across the network, it 
really isn't a server. (:

Maybe what we need is an xastir daemon to do gateway and digi, and an 
xastir client to show us all the great maps we can get for free, but I 
think that's already been mentioned on this list.

> On
> the same machine, with the same tnc's I can run Xastir (and it will 
> have
> access to the tnc's) AND I can run digi-ned (and it will have access 
> to the
> same tnc's) AT THE SAME TIME.

If digi-ned acts as an aprs server, let digi-ned have exclusive control 
of the TNC and let xastir talk to the digi-ned server port, just like 
it would any aprs-is server.

-Jason
kg4wsv