[Xastir] dual port TNC

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
>
>> An alternative idea was to add a KISS network interface, for use with
>> things like socat et al.  Would allow the MKISS daemon to talk to
>> network ports instead of named pipes, and has the added benefit of
>> allowing xastir to talk to network serial ports.
>
> That would be sweet.  I hear there's a possible solution to the
> remote TNC problem coming out soon from someone else.  I don't know
> details but I know someone who's beta-testing it.  If it's
> open-source it'd be a shame for you to duplicate effort along those
> lines, that's why I'm mentioning it.


Looked it up, it was in a message to this list from Tom Russo just
this week:

> While running Xastir this way is cute, ultimately I'm planning on
> using the plug mostly as a central TNC server using AX.25
> networking and a currently-unreleased piece of code called
> "ldsped" that is a Linux daemon that talks AX.25 networking and
> the AGWPE protocol (currently in beta, the author provided me with
> an x86 binary and says he expects to release source in July or
> August, at which time I plan to try it on the Sheeva).

So, a slightly different idea from yours.  Says "expects to release
source" so we can hope it's under a reasonable open-source license.

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