[Xastir] Igate operation

[Tim Gimmel]

I've been thinking about this, (usually a bad thing) and I was wondering
why there are 3 locations to turn on/off IGating: Config->Defaults, and
the 2 (or more) interfaces.  Seems like the options in the interfaces
would do just fine.
Curt you have me in a pickle.  You mention NWS feeds and I have been all
over the docs and can't find anything, your gonna have to give me a
hint.

Igating is working FB by the way.

73,
Tim, KB4AMA

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 11:44, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Tim Gimmel wrote:
> 
> > I have set up a station that now has Internet access and RF access.  I
> > have everything set up so that RF can go to IN and IN to RF, but I'm not
> > so sure anything is happening.  I have been watching the tnc.log,
> > net.log and igate.log (sorta like watching paint dry) to get a clue on
> > how it works, and the best I can see is if I send a message it goes out
> > both interfaces and the first ack wins.
> 
> You need to enable Igating on each RF interface and on the
> Configure->Defaults dialog.  At that point you'll be gating all of
> your RF-heard packets to the internet, plus messages from the
> internet will go to RF if the recipient of the message has been
> heard by your station within the last hour.
> 
> You can also gate NWS weather alerts to RF if you set that up.  See
> the docs.
> 
> 
> > Does anyone have a primer on
> > how igates should work, whats the best thing to allow and not allow,
> > path information etc.  I am still struggling with how the path's are
> > constructed, about the time I have them figured out I see something new
> > out in the wild.
> 
> Your best bet might be to prowl around the APRS sites on the 'net.
> Several good links were put forth yesterday on the APRSSIG mailing
> list (www.tapr.org).
> 
> --
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