Hi Gerd.
> yesterday, an OM asked me about further information about 6Pack
> in general and on Linux in particular.
> What have I to say? Nothing to be found except the 6Pack 0.2.0
> driver on ftp.hes.iki.fi and ftp.funet.fi . But ooh - its dated
> May 15, 1997 :(, designed for a "2.0.29 with the ax25-modules-12
> compiled in" - very ancient. They also say
> "In the 2.1.x kernels, some interfaces to kernel functions were
> changed, so the driver won't work with these kernels yet."
> This obviously applies to all our new drivers from kernel 2.0.35
> on ?!
> To add even more: Neither the link provided for downloading a
> newer version nor the e-mail address given in the docs work
> anymore.
> So there's the question: What's up with 6pack? (Yes, I know
> there's a driver in 2.2.x somewhere, that appears to be newer
> but both e-mail address and link for downloading given there
> (usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/6pack.txt) are
> incorrect.
> Does anyone on the list have more recent information? If so,
> please let me know.
I just asked lycos to search for 6pack and it came up with just one
site reference...
http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/~sailer/ham/ham.html#sixpack
This appears to just link to postscript and pdf descriptions of the
protocol - it's part of Thomas Sailer's site...
I also asked Yahoo, but they only provided links to a company making
"6-Pack(R)" containers, which are apparently a brand of boxes for
storing empty bottles in - not quite what one is after...
Best wishes from Riley.
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