[Xastir] Digipeating

Brian D Heaton brian.heaton at janusresearch.com
Wed Sep 1 13:07:12 EDT 2004


Rick,

APRSd is a very flexible and configurable Igate.  That is its primary
purpose and it does a pretty good job.  Its up on sourceforge too.


(Caveat - I'm one of the listed developers on APRSd)

			THX/BDH


On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 12:56, Rick Green wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 
> > Another method would be to run digi_ned and aprsd on the Linux box,
> > then connect all the APRS clients to the aprsd instance.  The later
> > versions of aprsd allow using the AX.25 networking ports to talk to
> > the TNC's, so aprsd and digi_ned should be able to co-exist.
> >
>   As someone else mentioned, a 'pure' unix-style implementation would
> separate the functions of igating from the client display function.  Does
> aprsd handle igating?  If so, then the ideal implementation would be a
> simple headless box running aprsd and digi_ned, and your xastir display on
> your X-equipped workstation can connect to the aprsd instance.
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