[Xastir] Fwd: Article on DIXPRS IGate software

[Ray Wells]

I am currently running v2.2.2 of dixprs on a RPi as the Igate vk2tv-4. 
It's only been running for two days but looks good. It currently runs 
with a serial KISS TNC but as soon as I create rc.ax25 it will use 
kernel ax25 KISS.

Ray vk2tv

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	[Xastir] Article on DIXPRS IGate software
> Date: 	Mon, 3 Sep 2012 17:06:58 -0400
> From: 	Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: 	Xastir - APRS client software discussion 
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> To: 	Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
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> Fyi, there's a PSR article on DIXPRS,which is the IGate software I
> like to run using Linux AX25 networking and thus share the TNC/Radio
> with Xastir and other applications.
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> http://www.tapr.org/psr/psr119.pdf  - (page 16)
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> This is kind of a shameless plug, but not long after this software was
> introduced, I checked it out and notified the author that I would like
> to see a version that could separate IGating from digipeating, which
> was not supported at the time.  The next day he privately emailed me
> an unreleased version that had the capability to run as a stand-alone
> IGate.  That capability was also included in the next official
> release.  Also, I reported a bug yesterday that is already fixed in a
> release that came out today.
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> >From time to time there has been discussion about how the developers
> aren't too interested in further developing the IGate functionality in
> Xastir - the recommendation has been to use a smaller, more
> specialized application.  I tend to agree with that philosophy, but
> I've been disappointed with the lack of choices of IGate software for
> Linux, so this newcomer is a welcome sight.
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> Regards,
> Lee - K5DAT
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