[nos-bbs] Missing something more basic?

[Glenn Thomas]

Hi Demetre!

It sounds as if you think I was proposing to ignore 44-house IP 
addresses. Nothing could be farther from the truth! Part of my 
comment was that nearly all Ham gear has no MAC address. A example of 
a MAC address is the ethernet address uniquely embedded in each 
ethernet transceiver. There is nothing like that in a TNC! The 
44-house IP address is something completely different...

As for emergency comms - JNOS should be a great way to go. IF the 
automatic routing inherent in the IP protocol can be made to work, 
including HF gateways into the internet, that's all you really need.

I've not done any experimenting with putting a Linux IP port on the 
air, except to know that it can be done. That might be another way to 
approach the problem...

73 de Glenn WB6W


At 01:55 PM 7/22/2006, you wrote:

>Hi Glenn,
>
>Of course you are in the DNS alright. Here is what I get when I try to telnet
>you from my LINUX box:
>
>sv1uy at home-0:~$ telnet k8rra.ampr.org
>Trying 44.102.132.20
>
>I get no reply so the problem is not DNS, it is your local AMPRnet Gateway
>that has no proper AMPRnet connectivity.
>
>I wish more people involved in JNOS and generally in AMPRnet applications,
>would use 44.x.x.x addresses. Don't forget they are real addresses. I don't
>think we should drop network 44. It is ours and we could all have good
>connectivity. As for emergency don't forget that Ham radio is not about
>emergency. It is a hobby and although emergency comms can be done to help in a
>disaster, they are not the primary purpose of ham radio. We have other tools
>for emergency, although if AMPRnet is set properly beforehand, there is no
>problem with emergency comms. This happened to me when Athens was hit by
>earthquake back in 1998 and nothing was working for a day except for our
>AMPRnet GATEWAY in Athens and HF/VHF/UHF radio. No telephones and no mobile
>phones were working. AMPRnet was OK though since it had a leased line.
>
>---
>73 de Demetre Valaris - SV1UY
>e-mail: sv1uy at ham.depa.gr
>AX25 PBBS: SV1UY at SV1UY.ATH.GRC.EU
>http://sv1uy.ampr.org/~sv1uy
>http://www.athnet.ampr.org/~sv1uy


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