[Xastir] IGating

[Alex Carver]

--- Matt Werner <kb0kqa at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.


The load is already there.  The servers are comparing
all the packets looking for duplicates and then
discarding the duplicates.  So the load on the network
shouldn't go up at all.  Rather you'd simply be making
visible a portion of the traffic that is otherwise hidden.


       
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