[Packet] Linux & axports.

[Shane Deering]

On Sun, 25 May 2003 03:32, Doug Laidlaw wrote:

> Thanks.  I gave you the wrong axports. It must have been the precedent in
> $HOME.  /etc/ax25/axports is
>
> # Axports file
> Port1 	VK3KDI-1	1200	255	1	VHF Port

Keep in mind that any time you refer to that port you will have to call it 
Port1. Not port1 or PORT1.
and remember that 1200 is the baud rate between the computer and the TNC. Not 
the on air baud rate. Make sure that the TNC is set to that. You should get 
better throughput if you up that speed a bit.

>
> The modprobe worked O.K.  I am using Mandrake 9.0 and installed the libax25
> and libax25-devel RPMs, but I don't seem to have /usr/sbin/kisattach.]

It's in ax25-tools.
Download ax25-tools-0.0.8-3mdk.i586.rpm
and		ax25-apps-0.0.6-1mdk.i586.rpm
as well.
There is also a ax25spyd-0.23-5mdk.i586.rpm that you can look at one day.
For the latest node you can rebuild node-0.3.1-1.src.rpm. Maybe someone has 
done an MDK version now.

> Should I change 192.168.0.10 to 127.0.0.1 for my system, as I don't have my
> own domain name?

That's why I picked 192.168.0.10 (at random). 127.0.0.1 is your loopback port 
and should not be uased for anything else. Too many things would break.
Just use a non routable IP address that isn't in the subnet of anything else 
on your computer/LAN. To make it easy you could use something like 
192.168.44.1 if you are already using 192.168.0.x on your lan.


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