Subj : Re: Packet Radio
To   : SetiOp
From : tenser
Date : Sun Jan 10 2021 13:26:01

On 09 Jan 2021 at 12:39p, SetiOp pondered and said...
 
 Se> It sounds like you have been busy! I really need to look into AMPRNet
 Se> again and check out the links you sent (thanks for that!). It sounds
 Se> like a lot of fun for sure. Now that I have the BBS back up, I want to
 Se> do some kind of gateways into different networks/machines as well. I am
 Se> not sure how successful I will be getting my ISP to route a subnet to
 Se> me, but maybe.

The cool thing about AMPRNet is that you don't need to your
ISP to route anything to you; you can do it all over tunnels.
That's what 44ripd does; it reads AMPR RIP packets and sets
up subnet tunnels and routes. Definitely check it out!

 Se> It has been a long while since I did that kind of stuff
 Se> myself, so I would be learning it all over again. Great to hear packet
 Se> and ham radio alive and well in your area. :) 

Indeed, it's exciting; I just got things hooked up so I can
gateway to 'telnet' to my Unix host when connecting into my
packet computer via AX.25, which is kind of cool.  Sadly,
there doesn't seem to be a loopback interface for AX.25, so
to test it I connected to a local digipeater and then back
to myself.  That works but is imperfect.  Oddly, when running
a command that emits lots of text, I've found some goes missing;
I suspect I'm writing more text than will fit in a single
AX.25 packet; perhaps I'll pay with MTUs.

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