[Xastir] KISS Question

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Bennett, Joe wrote:
>
> > Not sure if there is a reason for this, but I
> > noticed in the KISS string outputted by Xastir, there
> > is no "closing" C0 to signify the end of the KISS
> > message.
> >
> > I see it start out with C0, then the payload just ends
> > with <LF><CR>. I noticed that my Paccomm TNC(running
> > KISS) was sending packets basically delayed by one
> > as well as the station light was always illuminated.
> > In
> > comparing the KISS standard and other APRS programs
> > in KISS mode this seemed to be the answer.
> >
> > Anyway, didn't know if it was a bug or intentional,
> > so that's what I'm really asking....?????

What interface type are you using?  Must be AX.25 kernel networking
or Serial KISS TNC, right?  Let me know.

The code appears to be adding a KISS_FEND character (0x0c) at the
beginning/end of each packet, so more than likely it's and
off-by-one error, not writing that last character out to the
interface.  There was a tweak done recently so that an extra 0x00
didn't get sent out after every KISS packet, so perhaps that fix was
incorrect and got rid of the KISS_FEND character as well.

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