[Xastir] Newbie APRS help

[Mike GM1WKR]

Many Thanks Curt,

Thats a brilliant explanation and has put some order into my thinking.  I'll
have a read of the links you sent and absorb the manuals.

Thanks for your help!!
Cheers
Mike

2009/3/26 Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com>

>  On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Mike GM1WKR wrote:
>
> I'm a newbie to APRS and want to set up a Digi and iGate but still have the
>> machine in runlevel three.  Then when I want Xastir I can start X.
>>
>> I think I need Digi_ned, could someone provide me a sanity check that
>> digi_ned will do the necessary and that Xastir will work as a client to
>> that?  Sorry if this is a silly question.
>>
>
> I don't think Digi_NED does igating, but I might be wrong.  It is
> wonderful at digipeating, and is very configurable.  It runs on DOS
> or Linux.  The way you'd set up Digi_NED on Linux would be to set up
> an AX.25 kernel networking port first, then attach Digi_NED to that
> port.
>
> Xastir, when you have it running, would connect to the same AX.25
> networking port, so Digi_NED and Xastir would be sharing the port.
> Xastir is not a client of Digi_NED at all.
>
> You can think of an AX.25 kernel networking port as being very much
> like your ethernet port:  Multiple applications can use it at the
> same time.  In fact, some of the standard Linux applications may try
> to talk out that port unless you block them, for instance Samba and
> IceCream.
>
> For igating you could run Xastir or some other package (perhaps
> javaprsserver?), but for runlevel 3 you wouldn't be running Xastir.
>
> Check out this link for additional choices:
>
>    http://info.aprs.net/index.php?title=Software
>
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