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

[Boudewijn (Bob) Tenty]

Hi Misko,

The ax25 packages at https://code.google.com/p/linuxax25/ are maintained 
by VE7FET and Bernard, F6BVP
so this modifications are in there.

73,

Bob VE3TOK

On 15-06-13 12:30 PM, 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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