[FADCA] KISS - at first!

[JDaughtry]

chuck
 dont come to my part of the world and try and dump any of the cell networks
well maybe if you got a beam and aamp to get in them frances did a lot of
rearanging there services nextell got hit the hardest county uses them but
alas they are so spotty now can loose signal andsence they have no roam you
are dead in the water.
 you can be in my back yard and never move sprint will just disappear and
you will got from at&t to alltell to verision and maybe do it 3 or 4 time in
a 2 minute call
 frances did a number on the cheap instulations her thats for sure
john
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Hast" <wchast at gmail.com>
To: "Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association"
<fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: [FADCA] KISS - at first!


> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:08:08 -0400, bud thompson <budt at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> > >From Chuck:
> >
> > > With this I shall crawl back into my hole and watch. Y'all enjoy!
> > >
> >
> > >From bud:
> >
> > NO! Not until we have those working CD ROMs for FPAC and EMCOMMs!
>
> That is where I am crawling back too... By way I have a FPAC DOS running
> on a CF card. Boy you should see how fast is loads!! I have been pulling
the
> tools together I need to set up the FPAC Linux stuff. What we want is a CD
> that will load it on anything just like the little floppy that apperas to
run on
> anything that you stick it in.
>
>
> >
> > By the way the free AGW PE does work - it may take a little fiddling and
> > farting to get it up and running, but that is all Charlie N3PPC and I
have
> > been testing as it is what the masses would use because of the cost of
the
> > Pro version.  Once I have this stable with Paclink (and it has been
quite so
> > for several months), I'll start working with the  Pro version as it has
> > better support for sound cards.
>
> Bud, I did a lot of testing of it at UP, I was trying to get something
> up and running
> so we could get our product to run over the amateur radio network, I
> had it running
> on Win2k and XP, but when I stressed it it would go tits up, when I say
stressed
> it, I mean when I would basicly start sending it a lot of traffic. I
> would download the
> latest and greatest and see if that would fix it, but no joy. As long
> as I was just
> sending something here and there life was good. But when I really laid
into like
> you would if you had a system set up at a disaster point and were handling
say
> triage traffic, and entering data as fast as it was entered you were
> in deep trouble.
>
> Then when I e-mailed him and asked him about doing connected mode IP and
got
> that hauty response that really kind of burnt me, and to top it off I
> downloaded the
> new expensive stuff and tried it, found it to be worse, when I tried
> to back out of
> it, it would not remove it's self so that silly 30 minute timer kept
> on killing my
> link even though I had gone back to the original code for the which I had
paid
> $25. I had to go into the registery and kill every reference to AGW and
then
> re-install my old code. No needless to say I would NEVER trust it, yes it
will
> run just fine if not stressed but my experience is that under stress
> it is a piece
> of crap, and I have the tools to STRESS it good. I have to tools to stress
a
> commercial network to the point of taking a dump, one of my hats is that
of
> "can you hear me now?" and indeed probably going to be doing such a study
> right here in Hillsborough, Co. on AT&T, Sprint and Verizon, besides
trying to
> see if the advertised coverage is real, I also try to see how deep the
pond is
> and if I can break it simulating a yard full of vehicles trying to log
> into the mobile
> workforce server all at the same time, so I am pretty good at
> stressing things to
> the max.
>
> I again would recommend that someone who can write code get the TNOS
> source for DOS, look at the AX25 stack and try to use it in Win2k and
ExPEE
> it was already running on 95 and 98, and I think that there are people who
have
> it running on Win2K.Not sure about XP. First thing I would do is just
bring up
> TNOS, it has all the appropriate hooks to use it with other programs as
just the
> communications stack, but the source is out there and it WILL do heavy
duty
> weight lifting, Brian Tom and I DID pound on it mercylessly it handled our
AXIP
> links to other ROSE/FPAC networks and also I used it to do SMTP to the
network
> up in TX.
>
> Here is a site where you can download all of the TNOS DOS stuff.
> ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/packet/tcpip/tnos/current/dos/
> Take some time and take a look at it. tnos230s.zip is the source code and
in
> there is all that you should need to get a AX25 system running under
Windows,
> If someone will take the time to look at it I think they can figure
> out what they
> need to pull out and use to build the Ax.25 piece.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Chuck Hast
> 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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