[aprssig] new IGate software

[Bruce Coates]

Thanks Tapio

I switched it to KISS and it's working just fine.  I'm going to run it side 
by side with my normal iGate for the next few days.  Looks like a great 
piece of software.

Bruce - VE5BNC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tapio Aaltonen" <oh2gve at pakettiradio.net>
To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig at tapr.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:46 AM
Subject: Re: [aprssig] new IGate software


> On 19.05.2010 22:15:39, Bruce Coates wrote:
>> I tried running the program and almost immediately receive and error of
>> Uplink Closed.
>>
>> I think I have everything correct but I must be overlooking something.
>> My config file and log file are attached.
>
> Yes, everything seems to be correct. Too bad the advanced sample config 
> file
> was outdated. In beta version of aprsg it was possible to receive packets
> from a TNC running in monitor mode. But then it dawned on me that some 
> APRS
> packets do contain non-printable chars, which get altered or don't appear 
> at
> all when such packet is shown in monitor mode. As far as I know this is 
> bad,
> because IGate should not modify the packet body at all when gating a 
> packet.
> So the feature had to go.
>
> The solution here would be to change serialtnc to serialkisstnc for
> connection1 and reconfigure TNC into KISS mode.
>
> I'll update the sample config file in next release. Thanks to you Bruce 
> for
> reporting the issue.
>
>
> 73 de OH2GVE
>
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> Tapio Aaltonen
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