[Xastir] Link two XASTIR boxes through the internet?

[Guy Story KC5GOI]

In the past I have run aprsD on my laptop, had Xastir connect to it so other
stations could connect to my feed.  This way if I shut down Xastir it does
not break everyone else's connection to that feed.

Guy

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Craig Anderson wrote:
>
>  As Jason says, turning on the server ports is very easy, with a
>> few gotcha's.  The default server port that xastir opens is 2023,
>> but the default port that pops up in the "Internet Server" window
>> to create the connection is 14580.  So change the port number in
>> the "Internet Server" window to be 2023 and you're off and
>> running.
>>
>
> Interconnecting only two Xastir instances may not get you where you
> want to go, depending on what traffic you want to appear on each
> LAN.  If you're trying to gate to RF on each side, Xastir only does
> that automatically for messages and ack's/nak's.  You'd have to put
> set up additional gating using at least 3-character patterns in the
> nws-stations.txt file in order to gate more to RF.
>
> I'd suggest running a real server like aprsd on one box, then
> connecting both Xastir's to that.  If you want to cross-connect
> traffic that might be your best bet.
>
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Guy Story KC5GOI
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