[Xastir] UDP frames

[jeff at aerodata.net]

Conventional wisdom on the APRS list? My, your being generous this morning.

My suggestion is to do it the way you best see fit, irregardless of the
voodoo, mob mentality, backwoods engineering way you might be encouraged
to do it on the APRS list. If no-one has done this yet, you'll set the
standard, and the rest will follow.



> The conventional wisdom on the APRS list is that UDP is evil, because
> Bob wants an ack from everyone.  Every time.  Never mind that APRS uses
> UI data to work.
>
> Steve D. has supported him in the past.  I'm still working on him, but
> not real actively.
>
> I expect the next generation of the IS will look more like multicast
> than connected unicast, but that's my opinion.
>
> Would it work?  Sure.  Would it be as "reliable" as the connected
> version?  I suspect that statistically, it would be, but the occasional
> lost packet would be seized on a failure.
>
> gerry
>
> Wes Johnston wrote:
>> This is probably a silly question... but some of my best ideas start out
>> silly....
>>
>> There was talk on the APRS sig last week about hooking up an 802.11b
>> card to an
>> amp, and transmitting UDP frames to the local subnet broadcast address.
>> Can we
>> do that with xastir?  Can we rx UDP frames with xastir? I know scott
>> miller was
>> talking about using network broadcast of UDP for open trac.... so could
>> it be
>> implemented now?
>>
>> wes
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