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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoPlainText><B><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">netrom</SPAN> interface [<iface> <quality> [n]]<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></B></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New">Activate <iface> as a netrom interface. <quality> can be between 1 and 255. Interfaces are activated using verbose routes<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>broadcasting by default, meaning that they broadcast all known routes. This can be changed by adding the optional 'n' parameter to the command. Then only the system itself will be announced in a broadcast, not the known routes.</FONT></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New">If the paclen of the interface is smaller then the netrom mtu + 20, then the netrom mtu will be set to paclen-20 . This is to avoid fragmentation, causing incompatibilities with non-JNOS based NetRom nodes. </FONT></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New">If <iface> has already been activated as a netrom interface, re-issuing the command will set <quality> and [n] to the new values. 'netrom interface' will show the currently active netrom interface.</FONT></P>
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<SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Each time an interface is activated or changed, a broadcast poll will be sent out on the interface.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This minimizes the route discovery time at startup, and will update routes when the interface quality has changed.</SPAN><BR> <BR>
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:46:52 -0700<BR>From: kd6oat@gmail.com<BR>To: nos-bbs@tapr.org<BR>Subject: [nos-bbs] netrom broadcast quality<BR><BR>RE: Netrom Interface [<iface><quality> [n]]<BR><BR>Here are a couple of sample lines from an autoexec.nos file:<BR><BR>netrom interface abc 255 60 <BR>netrom interface xyz 255 <BR><BR>....and here are the results of jnos> netrom int<BR><BR>Iface Qual MinBcQual<BR>abc 255 60<BR>xyz 255 0<BR><BR>Question:<BR>What is the significance of 255, 60 or no second entry? How is the Bc quality defined?<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Ken<BR><BR> </body>
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