[nos-bbs] Missing something more basic?

[Glenn Thomas]

Interesting observation...

I saw something similar years ago on a community NOS system that may 
be related. The NOS system had RF ports on 144, 220 and 440. I would 
occasionally lose my head and try to connect to it on 144. The issue 
was that, in those days, the packet channel was overloaded. More 
often than not the link would retry out. My next attempt to connect 
was on 220, where the channel was essentially clear. The NOS system 
apparently heard me because it responded - on 144! Apparently once it 
heard a station on one port, it always responded to that station on 
that port - even if the station moved to another port. This has the 
same flavor as 'once the RF path is used that the "...$ ping ..." is 
no longer useful'.

I dunno if this is the same issue - or even if my routing issue still 
exists! (that was many years ago and far far away). This is just an 
observation that may or may not be relevant...

73 de Glenn WB6W


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