<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Yeah, but I was afraid it was a stupid question in the first place.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What is the JNOS Winlink client? I'm not seeing this in the JNOS manual.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I see a mention on <a href="http://hb1bbs.com/HB3NOS-Jnos/" class="">http://hb1bbs.com/HB3NOS-Jnos/</a> that JNOS can pick up message from a Winlink server, so I'm already thinking the pieces are in place.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- - - - - -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Honestly the most ideal option is I want to drop a message into JNOS via SMTP and have it go out to the WINLINK system. I prefer not to have a special client just for WINLINK.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Sky</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 3, 2021, at 7:51 AM, M Langelaar <<a href="mailto:maiko@pcsinternet.ca" class="">maiko@pcsinternet.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><p class="">Might as well chime in, it's been over a day and a half, heard
nothing (on list) ...</p>
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SCENARIO #1 an AX25 client connecting via JNOS</b></div>
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<div class="">Can JNOS “publish” an AX25 service that other apps
on the computer could connect to and use?<br class="">
Just a service available on a unix port would be perfect.<br class="">
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I've thought of a handshake system where apps could negotiate with
JNOS to auto configure<br class="">
available AX25 ports, but never got to it, not sure if that even
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and if so, what RFC (or standard) is in use for universality ?<br class="">
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In the literal context, I would say no. We only have ax25 over ip,
ax25 over udp, which<br class="">
requires manual setup on both ends. It would be nice to see what
others say on this.<br class="">
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This would let JNOS control the TNC and not have to share<br class="">
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a third-party app to connect to JNOS to get to and from the
radio. So I could use Pat or Outpost and just<br class="">
configure that app to know where to find the AX25 interface.<br class="">
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That almost implies Pat or Outpost has a means of asking for an ax25
interface. Can you give<br class="">
specifics on how it does this ?<br class="">
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<div class=""><b class="">SCENARIO #2 write a WINLINK client that
uses JNOS</b></div>
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<div class="">I know I could write Python scripts to connect to
JNOS, authenticate and send/receive WINLINK protocol. My current
Python scripts do that in a sense, as they connect to JNOS on
192.168.2.2 and then use JNOS to connect to a remote BBS and
send and receive mail. My system does this dozens of times every
day. Writing a WINLINK client in Python would take me a few
days, but I wonder what other people think of this approach. (I
have already tested connecting to 192.168.2.2 JNOS and then
issuing commands to talk to a WINLINK station and issue
commands, and all of that works just fine.)<br class="">
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</blockquote><p class="">You do realize JNOS has a Winlink (CMS Service) Client already
and supports multiple 'accounts' ?</p><p class="">What is it in Python you need JNOS to do then ?</p><p class="">Maiko / VE4KLM<br class="">
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