[Xastir] help

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 08:59:14PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <lee.bengston at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 10:18:36PM +0000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <davekh at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> >> I never have ? inet > rf ?enabled ? that would mean all the inet traffic
> >> would get transmitted out onto RF - I wouldn't want that.
> >
> > No, it wouldn't.
> >
> > INET->RF only gates to RF messages that are directed from a station heard
> > by your igate only on APRS-IS to a station that your igate has heard on RF.
> >
> > In addition, you can configure it to gate traffic from specific stations from
> > APRS-IS to RF, but by default it does not do this.
> >
> > Gating "all the inet traffic" to RF would be a disaster, and there is no
> > recent vintage software that would do that no matter what buttons you click.
> 
> There's no recent software with a GUI with buttons that would do that,
> but the two lightweight daemons out of Finland, aprx and aprsg, will
> do that relatively easily.  Both are intended to be used with no
> filter when logged into an IS server, but if the user puts a filter in
> there such as m/100, everything received within a 100km radius will be
> gated to RF (if the software has been configured to send from IS to RF
> and if there's no transmit filter on the RF side).  So to anyone
> trying out aprx or aprsg for the first time - nice little tools, but
> be careful!

Eeeek!  That's terrible.  I hope that's well documented.

Since IGates should mostly be bi-directional, it's a shame that someone would
create one that can be bi-directional and easily misconfigured to swamp
the local RF.

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