[nos-bbs] JNOS and Direwolf

[John Kristian]

Many thanks to those of you who shared your experience with Direwolf.

I experimented with Direwolf and JNOS, with ultimately good results. But 
there were two problems to overcome:

JNOS needs to connect to Direwolf's AGW port (default 8000), not the 
KISS port (default 8001).

I had to increase the MTU for the agwpe port, to handle 256 bytes of 
data per AX.25 packet. This configuration worked for me:

ax25 paclen 256
ax25 version 2
attach agwpe p440 192.168.2.52 8000
ifconfig p440 description "AGW Packet Engine"
ifconfig p440 mtu 297

With smaller values of MTU (or no mtu configuration), JNOS would crash 
when it attempted to send large AX.25 packets.

- John Kristian W6JMK

On 3/10/2021 5:36 PM, John Kristian wrote:
> Are you using Direwolf as a JNOS AX.25 port?
> Does it work well? Can you offer any advice?
> What version of JNOS are you using?
>
> I'm thinking of using it, primarily for BBS forwarding,
> to replace a Timewave PK-96. As I understand it,
> I would give this command to JNOS:
>
> attach agwpe portName 127.0.0.1 8001
>
> ... if Direwolf runs on the same host as JNOS.
> And of course I would configure Direwolf.
> Are any unusual Direwolf settings required?
>