[Xastir] Bad iGate messages being passed thru server port?

[Mike Loebl]

Hi Curt,

  Thank you for the reply.  I'll have to double check the version when I get
home, but I believe it's FC5.  It had been working great up until recently
(I updated it to one of the Jun builds a couple weeks ago but not sure TBH
when it started acting up.)  It's also just not the first character knocked
off, but also seeing garbage characters as well where it would be some odd
ASCII non-numeric code, several spaces and then the callsign followed by the
rest of the message.  After looking at it a bit yesterday I noticed it was
intermittent, as well as always on the igated messages and never on the
incoming message.  In the mean time I rewrote my app to throw out
bad/invalid callsigns.

-Mike
KB1MTS


On 7/18/07, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Mike Loebl wrote:
>
> >       I had written a piece of software to parse out packets via the
> > Xastir server port on 2023. I noticed I was getting some strange
> decoding
> > coming in to my app and traced it back to the server port.  If I telnet
> into
> > port 2023, here's an example of what I'm seeing:
> >
> >
> N8VIM>APRS,RELAY:$ULTW000000000369147627BBFFFC88830001017C00C5032800000000
> >
> VIM>APRS,RELAY,KB1MTS,I:$ULTW000000000369147627BBFFFC88830001017C00C5032800000000
>
> > KB1MKZ>APX184,WIDE2-2:=4233.78N/07116.28WxXASTIR-Linux
> > 1MKZ>APX184,WIDE2-2,KB1MTS,I:=4233.78N/07116.28WxXASTIR-Linux
>
> What OS?  I'm running three Xastir instances here, one of which is
> connected to a full-tilt Firenet feed and has the server ports
> enabled.  Telnetting to "localhost 2023" on Linux here shows lots of
> packets flying by and the first two characters aren't missing on any
> of them near as I can tell.
>
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