[FADCA] 35 Telpacs in FLorida? Is that for real?

[Chuck Hast]

On 6/4/05, bud thompson <budt at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Hast" <wchast at gmail.com>
> To: "Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association"
> <fadca at mailman.qth.net>
> Cc: "Steve K4CJX" <k4cjx at comcast.net>
> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 17:13
> Subject: Re: [FADCA] 35 Telpacs in FLorida? Is that for real?
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> 
> <snip>
> bud said
> >>On a related matter, it will be very beneficial to EMCOMMs for all Telpac
> >> nodes to have an SSID of -10.
> 
> >Bud,
> >Note that the way I have it set up on Linux kp4djt-10 AND TELPAC both
> >work. So a person in a bind if they can not remember the local call can
> >connect to telpac either direct or over the network.
> 
> Chuck,
> 
> YES! That is what we want eventually and LINUX FPAC gives us that hope.  Any
> user on any LAN on the network just issues a connect request
> 
> C TELPAC
> 
> and the network management takes over and makes it happen.  The local switch
> knows of routing to ten Telpacs and directs the connect to one that is not
> busy!
> 

Hmm, the connection part is what I am doing now. The trick will be to do
the load balancing and detection. We are probably going to need a
mechanisim that can report loading back to all of the switches that are
associated with the telpac apps. Or at least allow the system to tell the
network it is not taking anymore connects for a given facility and thereby
telling the network to route it elsewhere. All of it is probably there we just
need to figure out how to get these devices to tell the network their status.


-- 
Chuck Hast 
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and twisted metal."