<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ldeffenb@homeside.to" target="_blank">ldeffenb@homeside.to</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-m_-5676311008006584607moz-cite-prefix">On 11/30/2016 6:06 PM, Jim Alles wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="display:inline"></div> <font face="georgia, serif">However, there is at this time an APRS software package that appears to be not working properly. And provides the use of other, blocking-type filters (client-side).</font></div></blockquote></span>Maybe I missed something, but to what is this referring?</div></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">My guess would be Jim is talking about Direwolf where someone posted saying that it seems like Direwolf is merging packets together, which didn't make much sense since they all looked like third-party packets with a liberal RF-gate filter configured to me.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Jim came back with an RF-gate filter of "t/m | ( ! d/TCPIP/TCPXX )" to work around the issue until it was sorted out, which as best as I can tell RF-gates all message packets seen or not directly connected stations, which doesn't seem to change anything except trade one set of surplus gated packets for another. The thread lacked any clear identification of what the issue was or any exploration of root cause or a reproduction of the fault.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In any case, not really escalated yet to "make vague negative comments about it on the SIG".</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">--<br>Kenneth Finnegan<br><a href="http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/" target="_blank">http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/</a></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div></div>