[Xastir] KISS setup help

[Patrick Domack]

I must be lucky :)
I have a KPC 3, with v5.0 and have run it for over a year, without a  
reset and haven't had any kiss mode issues.

Quoting Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org>:

> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 07:35:10PM -0700, we recorded a   
> bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor,   
> containing:
>> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, David Sprangers wrote:
>>
>> > . When I try connecting to the KPC3 with Serial KISS TNC interface, I am
>> > unable to view any incoming packets on the Display Packet Data window. The
>> > Interface Control window tells me the device is up, but no   
>> incoming packets.
>> > When I connect to the KPC3 using a Serial TNC inferface, I am able to view
>> > incoming packers in the Display Packet Data window.
>>
>> Did you set the TNC into KISS mode first?  You can't just switch one
>> end without switching the other end.
>
> And do be aware that the KPC-3 and KPC-3+ have a buggy KISS firmware.  Once
> in a while, some condition or other will cause some sort of buffer overrun,
> and the TNC will start delaying outgoing packets.  This condition is reset by
> a power cycle.
>
> I am running a KPC-3+ in KISS mode for my igate and WX station
> (http://www.bogodyn.org/blog/) and find that this problem surfaces every few
> days.  I'm in the habit of checking my TNC log every morning and evening to
> see if the delayed packets are happening.  I can do this easily since I'm
> using a timestamped packet format from Xastir (weather station with   
> timestamp),
> and if I see my digipeated packets with a different timestamp than the packet
> I just transmitted, I know that the TNC is transmitting the previous packet
> I sent rather than the current one.
>
> If you have no real need for KISS operation, you're better off using  
>  the KPC-3
> in regular converse mode.  That's not an option for me since I'm running
> more than just Xastir on the TNC.  Ultimately I'll replace my TNC with one
> that does KISS better and move the KPC-3+ to some other function.
>
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