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Great & informative response Jay - thanks for the time you spent writing it!<BR>
Let's focus on one small aspect for this moment:(?)<BR>
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On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 16:59 -0500, Jay Nugent wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Greetings Skip,</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"> So per the Michigan convention for setting up the SSID's on a JNOS box </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">we have:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">ax25 alias YPSI</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">ax25 bbs WB8TKL-3</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">ax25 mycall WB8TKL-4</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">ax25 ttycall WB8TKL-5</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">convers mycall WB8TKL-6</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> And you say you have succesfully set ALL these services to an SSID of </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">-1. Let me ask how you connect to the TTYLINK console port without -5? </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">And how do you connect directly to the CONVerse bridge without -6? </FONT>
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On the subject of only CONV bridge.<BR>
I did not specify "convers mycall ..." and the sysop response to "conv mycall" is "" or null - thus it defaults to k8rra-1(?).<BR>
I did specify "convers host GHWEST" the alias specified by "ax25 alias GHWEST" as above in your example (same for NET-ROM).<BR>
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Is'nt it a misnomer to "connect to CONV bridge" since "connect" syntax is intended for BBS-to-BBS interconnect via AX-25?<BR>
NOTE: at k8rra BBS, "connect vhf-1 wa8rsa-6" fails to execute a connection...<BR>
However from the BBS command line the CONV function seems to work normally from both k8rra and wa8rsa with my config.<BR>
This is perhaps because CONV is based on TCP-IP link and not the AX-25 link?<BR>
Thus - convers mycall adds no functionality to k8rra (that I have discovered).<BR>
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So now: What am I missing that is basic to the need for the -6 SSID?
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As an addendum - NET-ROM connects from remote sites to "GHWEST" and "k8rra-1" quite normally via AX-25 I believe.<BR>
No special SSID for NET-ROM service only at k8rra-1.<BR>
The SSID at wa8rsa is set to -7 where -4 is the BBS & hamgate..<BR>
Thus I conclude that both options work and it becomes owner choice...<BR>
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