[FADCA] Linux dialup on auto and ax25ipd

[Chuck Hast]

On 6/18/05, Bill Sinbine <n4xeo at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi All
> There was a lot of things completed and fixed today. I now have my dialup
> configured in the boot up script. When the computer boots up it will dial
> out on it's own with no problems. If I pull the phone line out and plug it
> back in it will re dial so that (I hope) takes care of that.
> 
> Now the thing that didn't work was that when it booted up ax25ipd wasn't
> loaded even though I could see it start. This is one that chuck has been
> trying to figure why it wasn't working when he would log in.
> 
> After thinking about it for a GOOD while and doing a lot of trying this and
> rebooting it hit me.
> AX25IPD is not going to work without having the modem connected. AX25IPD
> was put in the boot up script and it took a sleep 60 to have it hold off
> enough to make sure the dialup connection went through. Right now I have
> f6bvp re sync and I haven't seen kp4djt come in yet.
> Chuck do you have the reconnect script in there yet?
> 
> It will be interesting to see what happens with ax25ipd when the modem has
> to re dial.  I'll go pull the plug on the phone line and see if it makes
> any difference when the line reconnects. I have a feeling that I might have
> to reload mine also so it has the newest IP address in there.
> 
>   If I have to rerun it every time that my ip changes then someone might
> want to think about a way to have it ping the server every so often and
> make it dynamic instead of static as it is right now. I know that for now
> we can just reload it and it will come up but we might need to think about
> having it ping our neighbors every 15 minutes or so to make sure nothing
> has changed.
> Right now Bernard is reloading his every hour so we will have up to a hour
> with no path between us.
> 

Bill,
One of the things that we are rapily realizing is that ax25ipd is a kludge, it
was just fine when you had a fixed IP and a stable path but it does not
handle dhcp well, we have pretty much come to realize that. What we need
is for some good network people to look at it and re-write it, so far I guess
that most of the people who are using it have no need to worry with dhcp
and other issues dealing with the link changing on one or both ends.

I have got to get the patches that Bernard did into my and get it set up so
that it can deal with your changing IP.

I am linked back to you now. Hope k4gbb gets his router punched so we
can get him on line.



-- 
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."