[Xastir] Smart RELAY digipeating

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Tapio Sokura wrote:

> Still I'm a bit sceptical about this everyone-transmits-at-the-same-time
> approach when there are stations involved that don't use the digipeating
> functions of a conventional TNC. I have mine in KISS mode so some delay
> is added from the serial communications (both ways) and from the
> processing occurring on the computer. When the packet gets back to the
> TNC from the computer to be digipeated, the channel is probably already
> occupied from the digipeats by other stations. But I'm not saying it
> can't work..

Understand.  You'd have to tweak your KISS settings so that station
was much more agressive on channel.  That'd be fine for igating but
not for normal operation.

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