[Xastir] Installing latest on hardy?

[Jim]

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Scott Evans wrote:
>
>>> radio: fm K4GVO-9 to QST ctl UI pid=CC(IP) len 145
>>> IP: len 145 44.24.250.250->44.255.255.255 ihl 20 ttl 64 DF prot UDP
>>> UDP: len 125 17500->17500 Data 117
>>> 0000  {"host_int": 13911567, "version": [1, 8], "displayname": "blacki
>>> 0040  e", "port": 17500, "namespaces": [10001884, 7322868]}
>>
>> Do you have Samba installed ? also cups is another culprit for tcp
>> flooding your ax25 ports!
>
> Yep.  The good news is that you've got AX.25 kernel networking
> going.  The bad news is that anything in the system that talks to
> ALL networking ports is now going to talk out your AX.25 port too.
> You can watch that port with "listen" (as root) to see what is
> happening.  Wireshark is another good way to watch the port to see
> who is talking on it.  A small bit of reconfiguration or shutting
> down daemons that you're not using will make the port quiet for
> Xastir (or other) uses.
>
Just for documentation, port 17500 is used by Dropbox to listen for 
other servers on the network.  If I figure out how to turn it off and 
keep Dropbox running I'll pass it on.

Jim.