[aprssig] Blog post: Important hints to APRS igate developers

[Scott Miller]

Thanks for the info, Hessu.  I'm starting my own implementation soon.  
Would be nice if we had a library of test packets in KISS format for 
stress testing (against something other than production servers!) - if 
you're saving examples of problem packets, let me know and maybe I can 
use them as templates.

Thanks,

Scott
N1VG

On 5/9/2017 2:51 AM, Heikki Hannikainen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the repeated spam about this document. It seems like it's 
> still easy to find these bugs (last night I filed tickets for 3 on 
> github).
>
> Last night I wrote a little blog post to highlight the issue of new 
> igate implementations having old bugs:
>
> http://blog.aprs.fi/2017/05/important-hints-to-igate-developers.html
>
> The technical beef is in the hints document:
>
> https://github.com/hessu/aprsc/blob/master/doc/IGATE-HINTS.md
>
> If you're writing an igate, or if you are testing a new igate made by 
> someone else, please check that it doesn't have these bugs. Thanks!
>
> If you're not writing an igate, but know a little C or Python, please 
> grab one of the new open source igate apps and do a little code 
> review, and try to find one of these bugs. They're surprisingly common 
> and easy to spot. Fixing might be really easy too, so you can submit a 
> Pull Request and get a warm, fuzzy feeling after helping the APRS 
> network become a better place for packets to roam in.
>
>   - Hessu, OH7LZB
>
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