From owner-freebsd-net Sun Jan 31 17:55:58 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29944 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 17:55:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29938 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 17:55:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt3-85.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.85]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA17775; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:55:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA02390; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:55:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199902010155.TAA02390@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: thivars@est.is cc: Archie Cobbs , Joao Carlos Mendes Luis , net@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: X.25 -> AX.25 ? In-reply-to: Message from Thordur Ivarsson of "Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:08:08 PST." <36B552D8.33BDCD7E@est.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:55:50 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thordur Ivarsson writes: > > AX.25 is modified version of X.25 protocol, it implements some hardware > controlling mecanism, addressing based on callsign, digipeating, and > more to use radios in stead of cables. > > There was some AX.25 code floating around here somewhere, I should have > copy somewhere, if someone asks. ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/packet for starters. One of the TNOS releases in ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/packet/tcpip/tnos cleanly compiles and runs under FreeBSD. I know because I provided the patches. But to really make it work one would like a SL/IP or PPP link thru a pty pair to the kernel. Never got that far without going out one real serial port and back in another. I decided there were other things I'd rather do. Lately the author of TNOS has decided to attempt a real life and has abandoned further development. http://www.lantz.com JNOS is another AX.25 package. The archive at ftp.ucsd.edu appears to be quite old. Both JNOS and TNOS trace their roots to the orginal KA9Q NET code, which was later the KA9Q NOS code. Alan Cox has been most active in supporting AX.25 in the Linux kernel. This is amusing: ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/packet/tcpip/bsd/386bsd.txt ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/packet/tcpip/bsd/386bsd_encap.txt says: 386bsd_encap is the FreeBSD 1.0 RELEASE (GENERICAH) kernel compiled with vk1xwt's version 1.3 encap network interface. bob@ke9yq.ampr.org ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/packet/tcpip/bsd/ham-bsd.txt is an announcement from Brian Kantor of partial support for AX.25 in 386BSD-0.1. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message