[aprssig] time for APRS second generation network?

Earl Needham needhame1 at plateautel.net
Wed Jan 5 12:57:31 EST 2005


At 10:50 AM 1/5/2005, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Earl Needham wrote:
><snip>
> >          Actually, the TNC (or, more properly, the AX.25 protocol) prevents
> > this -- it only allows SEVEN hops, not eight!  <G>
>
>Version 2.0 of the AX.25 spec allows eight digipeaters.  Version 2.2
>of the AX.25 spec only allows two.
>
>Perhaps some TNC's allow only setting seven, but the spec allows
>eight.

         What the heck?  We've had a seven-hop limit for YEARS.  What class 
did I sleep through???

         Earl


Earl Needham, KD5XB, Clovis, New Mexico DM84jk
http://kd5xb-2.no-ip.info






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