[nos-bbs] FW: SMTP vs. traditional forwarding via a Gateway

[jerome schatten]

On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 09:27 -0800, Michael Fox - N6MEF wrote:
> For anyone who didn’t want to wade through all of the message below:
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> Is anyone running a network of JNOS systems behind a single machine
> that does the forwarding to the rest of the BBS network?
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Yes, me.
 
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> If so, how are you handling the forwarding within your network?
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Read on...

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> a)  set up forward.bbs entries for each system in your local network
> and use axudp interfaces or telnet?

Three instances of Jnos 2.0i one one old Celeron machine running puppy
linux off a thumb drive. Everything is loaded into RAM, so it works very
fast. Each instance of jnos has an  axip links to the rest. One has a
radio port. I have two external bulletin forwarding partners outside the
system.

Bulletins look to me as they are being forwarded in AX25 over IP
protocol with fbb forwarding set to level2.
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> b)  somehow use SMTP between the local systems.  If so, how?

Once you have your rewrite file and forward bbs files set up properly,
smtp forwarding occurs any time messages are queued if there is an ip
route to the far station (at least that's how it looks to me).

Once I got my forward files and rewrite files set up properly, personal
mail to my axip partners always forwards via smtp. I think the sequence
of events is that smtp is tried first and if there's a route, it
forwards. If not, it ends up in mqueue and gets forwarded on the next
forward cycle. I am not set up to forward mail to the general outside
except for bulletins and to those I have axip links with externally, and
those who are on my own local network.

To sum up: I refer to my internal jnos's by their ax25 calls:
ve7ass-1, ve7poo-1 and ve7kit-1. ve7ass-1 forwards bulls and receives
bulls and my own personal mail outside the system. ass also forwards all
bulls to kit; kit has a working radio port on 145.07/67. I have poo's
fwd file disabled, but they all have aixip links to each other, and ass
has axip to three outside stations.

You can probably get a better idea by logging in and typing 'j' to get
an idea of how things are set up. You can connect via netrom to YVRASS
or you can telnet directly into ve7ass.dyndns.org

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> c)  something else?

nope -- hope this helps a bit and isn't too confusing. I still have mail
stuck in the mail queue from the 90's. The mail flag is really showing
which locals have gone to their final rewards -- a more or less
permanent memorial to better days <g>. Who says pacquette is not useful?
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> Thanks much,
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'welcome

> Michael
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> N6MEF
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jerome -va7vv, ve7poo, ve7spy and ve7ass 
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