[nos-bbs] JNOS + ax25 stack = a necessity or not? FYI

[MJ Inabnit]

Some major bugs have been reported on the ax25 tools on the debian 
list.  It's been interesting and has to do with later kernels after the 
2.4 kernels.  Hoping to see some updated code in the not too distant future!

73
j

On 06/13/2015 09:30 AM, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> On 06/12/2015 05:25 PM, Boudewijn (Bob) Tenty wrote:
>
>> If you want to inter-connect Jnos, Winlink/RMS, BPQ, Xnet, FBB, URONode,
>> etc. over ax25, you will need the Linux 25 stack
>> It's also the advantages of other Linux services and tools with more
>> possibilities you want to provide.
>>
>> Bob VE3TOK
>>
>
> Bob, others, thank you!
>
> Actually, I remember that few years ago I had in the home LAN a 
> non-AX25stack machine running only JNOS, where JNOS was talking with 
> another machine (running Linuxnode/FBB) by using only AXIP in between, 
> or something like that. In those days the JNOS machine was supposed to 
> serve as a simple JNOS bbs for incoming radio users. Now I have been 
> thinking on configuring JNOS again, but to add handling Winlink/RMS 
> mails that reside in the third machine:
>
>
>                                  Internet
>                                 gateway &
>                                  firewall
>                                      |
>                                      |
>                +----------+     +--------+     +----------+
> VHF radio <--->| JNOS box |<--->|FPAC/FBB|<--->| FPAC/RMS |
>                +----------+     +--------+     +----------+
>
>
> So, I wondered if JNOS could communicate with RMS without ax25 stack, 
> and it looks that I need to install it now.
>
> Nevertheless, I was used to install Bernard's packages:
>
> libax25-0.0.12-rc2.patched_f6bvp.tar.bz2
> ax25-apps-0.0.8-rc2.patched_f6bvp.tar.bz2
> ax25-tools-0.0.10-rc2.patched_f6bvp.tar.bz2
>
> ... and recently I found some updated versions on 
> https://code.google.com/p/linuxax25/ so now I wonder if those versions 
> are better than the Bernard's ones, or maybe those at 
> http://www.linux-ax25.org/wiki/Main_Page. Any idea?
>
> Regards,
>
> Misko
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