[Xastir] hit and run packet

[Wes Johnston]

I did see some scripts for war driving that forced a wifi card up and down to
generate a MAC address... I'm sure these scripts could be modified to send
these messages.  I'll have to play with it.

Wes
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Quoting "Dick C. Reichenbach" <dreichen at columbus.rr.com>:

> Curt Mills wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Wes Johnston wrote:
> >
> >
> >>You have a point though... if my local IGATE (kc4pl) were to shorten his
> dump on
> >>connect time to say, 10 minutes, I'd stay caught up as I travelled from one
> >>hotspot to the next.
> >>
> >>Other than the 2 minute retry, is there any way for xastir to know that
> eth0's
> >>IP address has failed? or has been reinitiated?  Can it trigger someway off
> of
> >>a hook in a sucessful DHCP assignment?  In other words, if I unplug my cat
> 5
> >>cable, eth0 fails.  Could xastir know that DHCP requested a new IP
> sucessfully
> >>when the cable was reinserted?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I'm sure something could be worked out if it was truly useful to do
> >so.  We'd have to talk about what might be the best implementation.
> >We have a way to take snapshots via a signal.  Perhaps another
> >signal could be used to tell Xastir to retry the network connection,
> >then some external stimulus could cause that to happen when the
> >network was up.
> >
> >
>
>
> Seems easy enough.  Use perl and the server port.  If your perl script
> detects DHCP is now up, then it could send a basic APRS message to the
> server port saying something like "Turn Interface 0 ON" or "Turn
> Interface 0 OFF", scince APRS data sent to the server port is never
> gated, then only your box would see it, and you would get a message
> notice telling you that information.  The parser would only start
> interface 0 if the sender matched an internal ID code, like Callsign-PL
> or whatever.
>
> Dick Reichenbach.
> KC8OBZ
>
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