[FADCA] Testing Testing Testing at Clermont (> 500 ft amsl)

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The move to LINUX FPAC would give those who prefer other protocols
that option. LINUX also has NetRom compatible pieces and of course
IP. There is are other protocols available also. By implementing
these devices using LINUX you will have those protocols available.

One of the things that FPAC LINUX can do is hide the X.25 and X.121
stuff that seemed to cause those of you from the north such issues.

FPAC LINUX also can run a database such that you connect to your
local switch and issue a connect to the station you are trying to
communicate with, if that station is on the network somewhere it will
go out and find it transparent to you. The turning on of that feature
does add network over head to the system something that we down here
in Florida had selected ROSE for in order to avoid. But it still retains
the overall lean and fast layer three properties that made ROSE fast
in terms of throughput over large networks (the protocol used by ROSE
and FPAC only adds 3-5 bytes of overhead to the data packets going across
the network, you also do not have to reduce your data burden in order
to take into account additional network overhead as you had to do with
some other protocols) Also FPAC can tunnel other protocols through it
and spit them out on the far end. I have tested this setting up connections
to NetRom nodes across FPAC and ROSE networks, the NetRom node thinks
it is talking to a neighbor node when in truth it is quite remote, but
the transparency of the layer 3 protocol used by FPAC allows for this.

In the end I believe that the fast paths will sooner or later move to
some form of IP, we will probably still retain the FPAC paths in the
remote areas or areas where bandwidth is a issue. 

Now off to get my wife's bait truck fixed (alternator is almost DOA)
Y'all have a nice day now, hear?!


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