[Xastir] KISS over TCP

[Lee Bengston]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 11:27:50 -0700
Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:15:49AM -0600, we recorded a
> bogon-computron collision of the <lee at 175moonlight.com> flavor,
> containing:
> > Hello to the list. Has anyone used either SOCAT or 
> > other application to effectively create a KISS over
> > TCP interface for XASTIR? In other words convert a
> > serial KISS interface to TCP. The VARA modem seems
> > to be gaining momentum in APRS over HF ever since
> > it added a KISS over TCP (server) interface. Several
> > APRS clients already supported KISS over TCP prior
> > to VARA's addition.  
> 
> Yep.   See https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/discussions/216
> 
> It's a bit of a kludge, but it does work, and the user who asked the 
> question on github came up with a simple script to get a
> KISS-over-TCP TNC to attach to Xastir.
> 

Thanks Tom! Before reading this I tried a somewhat different command
with SOCAT, and it did transmit over the network to the VARA modem,
but VARA reported an invalid KISS frame. Sounds like that one in the
referenced discussion will do the trick - will give it a try.

73,
Lee K5DAT