[nos-bbs] Where to find encap.txt

[Lee D Bengston]

Please correct me if I am wrong, but the way I'm interpreting this is that
JNOS is running RIP so that there is no need for ampr-ripd. That would
explain why there's no directory and file as described.

73,
Lee


On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM jerome schatten <romers at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Bob I made the directory as you suggested and then rebooted jnos. After
> ‘route’ showed the entire list, I looked in ‘ampr-ripd’  and it was still
> empty.  So obviously I failed to understand you properly.
> n
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jan 8, 2025, at 17:21, Boudewijn (Bob) Tenty <bob at tenty.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Jerome,
> >
> > I don't know what version of ampr-ripd you are using but I vaguely
> remember that older versions didn't create the ampr-ripd directory
> automatically in /var/lib/ ,
> > so in that case you always can create it manually and restart the daemon
> afterwards.
> >
> > Bob VE3TOK
> >
> > can always create it manually.
> >
> > On 1/8/25 19:50, jerome schatten wrote:
> > > Bob…. I don’t seem to have a
> > > ‘ampr-ripd ’ directory anywhere on my jnos machine.
> > > j
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > >> On Jan 8, 2025, at 13:37, Boudewijn (Bob) Tenty <bob at tenty.ca> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Jerome,
> > >>
> > >> The ampr-ripd daemon running in Linux stores the encap.txt in the
> /var/lib/ampr-ripd/ sub-directory.
> > >> It is in the format what directly can be read by jnos. He is better
> off of course downloading if from the wiki
> > >> a couple of times a day with a crontab entry and converting it from
> the json format to the jnos format.
> > >>
> > >> Boudewijn (Bob) VE3TOK
> > >>
> > >> On 1/8/25 14:38, jerome schatten wrote:
> > >>> Many long year ago, around the year of the flood, one used to be
> able to go to the portal and download the latest encap.txt file, or sign up
> to have it e-mailed. Grousing around the new ‘improved' portal, that
> feature seems to no longer be available. Is this the case, or is it just
> that I can’t find it? There are folks that need that service as they can’t
> receive the rip broadcasts.
> > >>>
> > >>> I’m not bothered by this as I receive the broadcasts just fine, but
> one of my forwarding partners is not able to receive the broadcasts and
> that makes his jnos system somewhat useless these days.
> > >>>
> > >>> It appears to me that the rip stuff is not a file on my system, but
> rather resident in memory after receiving the broadcasts. Can I force the
> dumping of the rip info on my system to a file that can be sourced by my
> unfortunate friend?
> > >>>
> > >>> He has had this problem across the years, and many different modems,
> and even across different isp’s.
> > >>>
> > >>> We could use some advice….
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> jerome
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