[FADCA] Re: Fw: NTS

[Evans Mitchell kd4efm / afa2th fl]

Sounds fine to me, call my Nextel or cellular number (being sent to you =
privately)
and we will go from there

EFM
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From: <wchast@utilpart.com>
To: <fadca@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 10:26
Subject: RE: [FADCA] Re: Fw: NTS


> Evans
> Well, for NTS you could if the traffic is not too heavy use a BBS
> in a TNC (save the machine for the switch) then you would not have
> so much power consumption.
>=20
> As to the switch, the network is FPAC, the problem with TheNet is
> it is not network transparent so it will not pass FPAC network layer
> packets. In order to use it in the network a user would have to
> connect to or through it in order to get on through the network,
> that defeats the reason for having a homogenous network, now one of
> the reasons for moving to LINUX FPAC is it can and will have the other
> protocols in the box so if someone wants to play with NetRom (the
> foundation protocol for TheNet) it will be there, if they want to
> try Flex, it will be there. If they want to run IP, it will be there
> (I see the future going that direction, with FPAC becoming sort of
> the background pipes for the network but the user will mostly see
> IP, FPAC will just keep the routing clean and fast).
>=20
> Let me see if Gary and I can get with you and talk a bit more about
> this as he is also working on some other stuff over in your area, and
> we should get it all coordinated so that there is not replication of
> services when other services go needed. The switch thing may be taken
> care of in which case you dedicate your box to the BBS and all you
> will need is a dedicated drop to the switch site so you have a =
dedicated
> pipe between your BBS and the switch. If you want to set up a general
> purpose BBS it could be the BBS that has the speed connect on the
> switch (the speed connect is one of the SSID callsigns that users
> can connect to without having to know anything else, as soon as they
> connect to that call on the switch the switch routes the call to the
> associated BBS, the user does not know the difference, in fact many
> times the response time is better than a direct LAN connect because
> of the way things can be tweeked between BBS and switch.
>=20
>=20
> Chuck Hast
> =
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> To paraphrase my flight instructor;
> "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my =
going
> out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
> and twisted metal."



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