[nos-bbs] mbox fbb setting

[Michael Fox - N6MEF]

Hi Gus,

 

Thanks for the summary.

 

A correction/clarification:

 

When I set “mbox fbb 2”, my JNOS responds with BF in the SID, not B1F.  The FBB website describes B1F as different from BF.

http://www.f6fbb.org/protocole.html

 

Michael

N6MEF

 

 

From: nos-bbs [mailto:nos-bbs-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf Of 'Gustavo Ponza'
Sent: Saturday, April 2, 2016 4:03 PM
To: TAPR xNOS Mailing List <nos-bbs at tapr.org>
Subject: Re: [nos-bbs] mbox fbb setting

 





I wish some of the 'seasoned' guys would say something about this. Sorry 
if I'm putting any of them on the spot, but I've spent hours and hours on 
this stuff and it's getting frustrating trying to nail things down :( 


I'm very sorry about this troubles, and first of all I want to TNX Maiko
for its efforts on support the hamradio community!

So, go ahead, the possible (so called) FBB flags are: 

The flag option may be one of the following: 

*    0 > standard WA7MBL-style forwarding 

*    1 > FBB batched-style forwarding 

*    2 > FBB compressed and batched forwarding (B1F)

*    3 > B2F compression for WL2K [only for jnos2.0f2 or later] 


and since the B2F contains the B1F capabilities (owned by FBB and others)
why come back to 1980s by using the MBL style? No sense!

Since a few years after the progress on B1F and B2F made on the JNOS2
I removed the old setup and so in the JNOS-2.0j.7v era they remains:

#mbox fbb 0
#mbox nob2f <callsign> # not more needed as of JNOS-2.0j.4


in that situation the JNOS2 reply and confirm to us:

"Default to Mailbox FBB Style Forwarding: 3"

and the related SID shows the FLAGS "B2FHIM$".

About the forwarding capabilities of the actual JNOS2, my tests
and the daily forwarding confirm the full compatibility with the
linux xdfbb-7.0.8b (November 2015) and some (NOT ALL) of the
previous versions.

The 'telnet' setup on the side of xfbb should be:

# Linux AX.25 port
#P A
# Telnet port
P B
#
# No compression [N 0]
N 1
#
IF H 00-23
 S connected failure busy
 C C IR0RM-1 44.134.32.233 23
 V i0ojj$Wxxxnnnxxx$W
ENDIF

mandatory, for now, is to setup 'N 1'.

Note for Maiko: the problem seems reside on the fact that
the FBB and some other terminal packet programs need a
transparent TCP connection rather than the full TELNET
protocol.

On the JNOS2 side set the connection to:

# for xfbb 7.05g/7.0.8 [ir0aab-1] <- telnet fwd OK (N 1)
telnet 44.134.32.240 6300

For other PBBS software, FBB or not, the only way is
to forward via the AX.25: it function very OK; example:

ax25 xnet ir0aab-1 i0ojj-3

That's all!
1.00 AM here: good night!

73, gus

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