[nos-bbs] Where to find encap.txt
Boudewijn (Bob) Tenty
bob at tenty.ca
Thu Jan 9 19:57:39 EST 2025
Hello Jerome,
I'm not using RIP in JNOS but in Linux so can I can't help you with RIP in Jnos but of course you run it in Linux or in Jnos.
73,
Bob VE3TOK
On 1/9/25 00:33, jerome schatten wrote:
> Correct… I was trying to find a method of getting encap.txt capability for a friend by testing it on my system- sorry for the confusion. Are you saying I must first kill rip on my system to do that?
> J
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jan 8, 2025, at 18:32, Lee D Bengston <kilo5dat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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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