[aprssig] WIDEs

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Ahh, the ping-pong effect.  Most TNC firmware (including Kantronics)
does not check for duplicate digipeats.  The Kantronics does do dupe
checking, but only for UIFlood (and UITrace?) aliases.  This is why
RELAY,WIDE,WIDE is so much worse than RELAY,WIDE2-2 and should not be
encouraged.

73,

Pete Loveall AE5PL
mailto:pete at ae5pl.net 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric H. Christensen
> Posted At: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 10:30 AM
> Subject: [aprssig] WIDEs
> 
> I'm curious.  If I'm using a path like RELAY,WIDE,WIDE and it 
> gets repeated twice so it now looks like 
> K4ROK-10*,KB4TOH-10*,WIDE why would K4ROK-10 repeat the 
> packet again?  Wouldn't it see that it is in the path already 
> and not digipeat it again?