[aprssig] Different UI-Path's etc, (was RE: Time to UPGRADE obsolete DIGIS!)
Curt, WE7U
archer at eskimo.com
Mon Jun 9 11:43:01 EDT 2008
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, John Ronan wrote:
> On 9 Jun 2008, at 10:08, Dave Baxter wrote:
>
> > Currently (so I believe) the "recommended" UK path setting is
> > "RELAY,TRACEn-N", functionally (I believe) the same as (or very
> > similar
> > to) "WIDE1-1,WIDEn-N" (someone tell me different if need be)
> Functionally quite similar, but, things can go a bit nuts when some
> joker puts in RELAY, RELAY, RELAY ;)
As I recall we made the switch from RELAY to WIDE1-1 here in NA
because the digi's could only do dupe checking on the WIDEn-N
portion, but not the RELAY. By switching to WIDE1-1 we got a very
definite gain in operation.
> If the UK is hell bent on having TRACE traceable fine, but a question
> that could be posed what would be the problem with having WIDE
> traceable as well?
Yea, like we do. Then we dropped TRACEn-N because it did the same
exact thing. We dropped WIDE/TRACE/TRACEn-N/RELAY. Our busy
network here in the greater Seattle area got a whole lot less busy
plus people could send messages to each other again. The network
became a WHOLE LOT more reliable.
> Which is bogus, the WIDEn-n paradigm is fully traceable, thats the
> whole point.
Yep, but I'm not sure it's an obvious next step when you're looking
at things like KPC-3+ manuals. It took people here a while to come
up with it.
> I got booted from a list already (I forget which) for suggesting (in
> exasperation it has to be said) that traceable WIDEn-n had to be more
> efficient than traceable TRACEn-n, as there was one less character in
> WIDE.
Because you _know_ how AX.25 headers are implemented, that's pretty
funny!
The comment is correct for APRS-IS feeds though, it _is_ more
efficient there...
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