[aprssig] Something odd with the internet servers?

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

256-byte payloads.  What happened with NOS was the long-packets were 
(appropriately) fragmented and sent as consecutive frames.

gerry

Curt Mills wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, AE5PL Lists wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ah, that explains it.  The information field (with timestamp) of the
>>return message would be over 256 characters which is not allowed by
>>AX.25.  Good eyes, Gerhard ;-)
> 
> 
> Sure about that?  I probably need to go look at the spec again, but
> I could swear we used to run 1024 byte packets on TCP/IP.  I don't
> think 256 is an inherent limit of AX.25 protocol.
> 
> A quick look at the AX.25 HOWTO document shows that even Linux
> allows 1 to 512 as the length.
> 

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