Subj : Re: Packet Radio
To   : tenser
From : tenser
Date : Thu Jan 14 2021 04:40:47

On 10 Jan 2021 at 01:26p, tenser pondered and said...
 
 te> Indeed, it's exciting; I just got things hooked up so I can
 te> gateway to 'telnet' to my Unix host when connecting into my
 te> packet computer via AX.25, which is kind of cool.  Sadly,
 te> there doesn't seem to be a loopback interface for AX.25, so
 te> to test it I connected to a local digipeater and then back
 te> to myself.  That works but is imperfect.  Oddly, when running
 te> a command that emits lots of text, I've found some goes missing;
 te> I suspect I'm writing more text than will fit in a single
 te> AX.25 packet; perhaps I'll pay with MTUs.

So after playing around with the gateway software a bit,
I have this working pretty reliably now; in particular,
I don't seem to be dropping text, which is nice.

It's kind of cool to login over packet and send email to
other folks.  It occurs to me that one could build a
better traffic BBS out of this.

Pretty cool.

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