[Xastir] IGating

[Matt Werner]

On 8/25/07, Alex Carver <kf4lvz at yahoo.com> wrote:

> In that same train of thought, it would be nice if the
> APRS-IS could show the duplicate packets instead of
> discarding them.  Then you possibly _could_ get a
> better understanding of the RF network by watching how
> a packet propagates and duplicates itself.

Just imagine the additional load on the network if that were the case.
 In some areas a packet could be heard by many many different igate by
the time it takes it two or three hops.  That would easily have the
potential of increasing the network traffic by 5x or more I would
think.