[Xastir] KISS, Xastir and processing data

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 02:48:58PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <ve6srv at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:14 PM, John Wilson <kc4lzn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I've noticed that some of the data coming through my station doesn't appear
> > to be gating the proper information.
> 
> Not sure is the PK-232 has the command or not, but...
> 
> Check your PASSALL status. You want it off, otherwise you will forward
> munged up packets. It may also be someone in your area running PASSALL
> ON in their digipeater that is passing garbaged packets.

Hmmm.  I just looked at a PK-232 manual, and indeed it has a passall command.
I had assumed that this option would not apply to KISS mode, but it is worth
checking.

http://www.repeater-builder.com/aea/pk232/pk232mbx-operating-manual.pdf

PASSALL sure does sound like a likely cause, if it does in fact apply when
KISS is enabled.  

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