[FADCA] Internet/FBB/LINUX/FPAC

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Today, John, WA8KNE, solved the LINUX machine to Win FBB via the telnet problem. He also located a LINUX FBB site for software AND the LINUX FPAC site.

The LINUX machine to Win FBB telnet problem was the FBB software under Windows did not recognize the "enter" or "Return" as a "Carriage Return Line Feed". Using the Telnet MAN page and O'Reilly "LINUX in a NutShell" book, he found you could tell the LINUX machine to toggle crlf. That solved the basic   problem. If anyone is interested, send me a note and I can forward to you the way to do it. We tested it several times on the W4JAX machine in Jacksonville.

What we did not solve was the packet radio to Win FBB gateway to telnet connection to a LINUX machine.  The connection works, but the Windows machine does not know what to do  with the response of the LINUX machine and we could not get the Windows machine to send the signon user code and password to the LINUX machine in a telnet session. Anyone know the answer for that one?

For those who are interested here is the url for the LINUX FPAC site as well as the FBB LINUX information:

http://www.f6fbb.org/ will give you a link to LINUX FPAC.

http://linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/mini/FBB.html will take you to the site to find the LINUX version of FBB. That site will take you to the f6fbb site where you can find the LINUX FPAC site.

What is this all about?

It is research to build a radio to internet emergency communication system I had proposed last week. What will that do? It will allow portable packet stations entering a disaster area without telephone and internet service, to connect to the nearest internet equipped FBB site or FPA switch to reach the state EOC or County EOC over a wire line that can handle any amount of file traffic and tactical keyboard traffic needed to respond to the disaster. This is the "radio for the 'last mile' and wireline connection over existing circuits" concept.

What will that do?

It will enable packet stations to suppor ALL of the communications needs from a disaster area to an EOC or State EOC without trying to use the vagarities of HF or the slow, low bandwidth of a single frequency vhf packet system.

Russell
N4KOX