Subj : Re: Packet Radio
To   : tenser
From : Vk3jed
Date : Sun Jan 24 2021 08:07:00

-=> On 01-24-21 03:14, tenser wrote to Vk3jed <=-

 te> Approximately all of it, but I'm referring specifically to
 te> the AX.25 tools and apps for Linux.  An interesting example

Yeah, the kernel stuff looks well and truly bit rotted.  I have been playing
with LinBPQ, which seems to work

 te> Another issue was in the `ttylinkd` daemon: this is basically
 te> an interface to the venerable talkd(8), and speaks the same
 te> weird undocumented protocol.  But its handling of that protocol
 te> was broken (it didn't talk to the local daemon on the right
 te> interface) so I had to fix it.  That was really annoying.

Hmm, yeah that would be a problem. :)

 te> I attribute all of this to this software being overly complex
 te> and essentially unmaintained.  I could fix it locally, but
 te> its tedious.

 te> Who knows what bugs are lurking in the kernel AX.25 implementation?

A lot of people use non kernel implementations like JNOS and LinBPQ these days.


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