[Xastir] What does xastir do?

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:04:12AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <ldeffenb at homeside.to> flavor, containing:
> On 12/24/2011 10:28 AM, Tom Russo wrote:
> > The only way to get Xastir to gate posits from an APRS-IS station is 
> > to list it in "nws-stations.txt" 
> 
> And if you do that, are there any configurable limits on how many 
> packets said-configured stations can pump through to the RF?

No.  If you add a station to nws-stations.txt, you gate that station's
packets.  No configuration options at all.  It is intended (as implied by
the name) to allow an igate to gate NWS alerts.  

One limits packets gated by one's station by limiting the stations one 
gates in this manner to those that need to have their packets gated, and
that behave themselves.  A normal igate station should have very few such
stations listed.

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