[Xastir] {Dangerous Content?} RE: soundmodem stops decoding

[John Ronan]

On 16 Feb 2010, at 20:36, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, John Ronan wrote:
> 
>> I don't understand what the two options are for after the
>> broadcast flag.  That's where it differs from my config.
> 
>>>     <pkt mode="KISS" ifname="sm0" hwaddr="" ip="10.0.0.1" netmask="255.255.255.0" broadcast="10.0.0.255" file="/dev/soundmodem0" unlink="1"/>
> 
> Those are for emulating a serial port, which will appear as
> "/dev/soundmodem0".  You can then attach Xastir's "Serial KISS TNC"
> interface directly to that filename.
> 
> If you configure with AX.25 kernel networking then you don't get
> that in your setup but have to do additional things to bring up the
> port before Xastir can connect to it with the "AX25 TNC" interface.
Oh, 

Never used that mode... must remember that.  That's interesting.

John