Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 11:45:34 +0200 From: Olaf Erb <erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ham radio programs? Message-ID: <19970929114534.35701@insl2.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de> In-Reply-To: <199709290933.EAA02216@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Mon, Sep 29, 1997 at 04:33:42AM -0500 References: <erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de> <199709290933.EAA02216@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Mon, Sep 29, 1997 at 04:33:42AM -0500, dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote:
> My copy of TNOS *never* ran as root. That's the good feature of SL/IP
> over pty. Considering the low low low bandwidth of amateur packet radio,
> its not even close to being a performance issue. The FreeBSD version of
> TNOS uses "install -c -g dialer -o tnos -m 2755" to install as user "tnos"
> setgid to "dialer" so it can uucp lock serial ports.
Well, depends- we're running several 76k8 backbones here, and with multiple
links it's even wise to use 115k2 on the serial(kiss) port. But I think
slip over pty may even handle this quite well, it's just a pain setting it
up or explaining it to users ;-)
> I played with WAMPES many years ago under Linux. Was the first AX.25
> stack I got to run. For a few minutes I even thought its automatic
> generation of user accounts for new logins was cool. Am sure that can
> be disabled if one took the time to find it.
Sure. No user logins here, it can easily be disabled.
> I would be much more interested in a modular amateur packet radio
> approach. BBS, NNTP, HTTP, mail, TCP/IP, etc, all in one binary is way
> too much. Would rather see something like a "kissd" which could
> interface to KISS TNC's and spawn the appropriate child process on
> connect.
Hmm, WAMPES has sort of "tcpgate" where you can map TCP ports to the
outside, like: start tcpgate 25 localhost:25 which makes the smtp port of
the Unix side visible to the radio part, without real routing using tun/slip.
Same works with http, nntp, etc. FTP-not, for obvious reasons, but you can
solve this with wampes' builtin ftp-server, too.
I dislike this "everything in one program" approach, too. Like netscape
communicator. A program usually grows till it can read mail and post news
*igitt* ;-)
Olaf
--
Argue your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
-- Richard Bach, Illusions
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