Hi Chuck,
I guess you could do that. I do not have Power Tools so I am not sure if it
will work. I have been unsucessful in compiling any AX25 code so I do not know
how well you will go. I have used the binary RPM's here.
The documentation is very out of date. I would like to get going with some
interesting stuff. Instead I find myself fixing things which should not be
broken :-)
Best Regards
Richard
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>From "Hast, Chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 25 January 2000
To : "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Copy To : (bcc: Richard Talbot)
Subject : RE: RE: AX25 and Redhat 6.1
Richard:
Sorry to be so late on this, I have been sick and out of town
(at the same time B-b) and so have been somewhat removed
from this.
I read somewhere that the AX.25 stuff was already in the 6.1
stuff, or did I read wrong??
I have RedHat 6.1 Deluxe which comes with the Power Tools
CD which has the AX.25 RPM's on it. I assume that I just
pull them over onto the hard disk then do a recompile making
sure that I get all the AX25 stuff turned on, then I guess do
the same for the RPMs?
I will do so, I have 6.1 on a laptop now (dangerous time eater)
so I can now putz with it while on the road.
In truth I fear I do not know what I am doing, sure wish that there
were better step by step info, the howto appears to be quite out
of date.
Thanks for the info so far.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 19:15
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: RE: AX25 and Redhat 6.1
>
>
>
> Hi Chuck,
>
> It is all fairly easy to get going. Conpile your kernel with AX25 support
> as
> per the howto. I then created a simple shell script to setup the
> interfaces
> etc. Put your TNC in kiss mode and connect it to the port. Then use
> kissattach
> to create the ax0 device.
>
> The only thing to remember is you must assign an IP to the port after you
> use
> kissattach. This can be done with the ifconfig command. If you would
> like me
> to send you a copy of my script file let me know and I will sent it to you
> ...
> it is very basic though.
>
> I would recommend using the HOWTO to get started. Just remember to use
> the
> packages below to get going...
>
> SNIP " for 2.2 kernels, you should download ax25-apps, ax25-tools libax25
> from
> ftp://ftp.hes.iki.fi/pub/ham/linux/ax25/ and install them as instructed.
> The ax25-howto is a bit outdated on the ax25 installation when you are
> using 2.2 kernels. "
>
> Anyway, hope this helps
> Richard
> VK2HDJ
> __________________________________________________________________________
> ______________
>
> From "Hast, Chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 5 January 2000
> To : "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Copy To : (bcc: Richard Talbot)
> Subject : RE: AX25 and Redhat 6.1
>
>
>
> Richard:
> I am new to this part of linux, I have run TNOS for quite some time
> but have never putzed around with the AX.25 stuff in LINUX.
>
> I have RH 6.1 and am getting ready to install it, I pulled down the
> AX25 how to and tried to follow it for RH 6.0 (which I also have) and
> appeared to have made a misserable mess out of it. I was able to
> compile a kernel and I also did the modules thing but that is as
> far as I got, I would like to find a good set of steps for doing this
> under the 6.0 or 6.1 rev.
>
> I can see that you are having problems but are much farther down
> the road than I am. I really just want to set up a linux box to handle
> IP (UDP) in AX.25 frames. But I also in the end want to keep track
> of mobiles off of several towers and figure out which tower a mobile
> is on and route the packets to that tower. Right now I just want to
> get to where you are with your second problem (assigning IP addr
> to a port and sending ax25 frames) then I can press on.
>
> I am assuming that there is a load of differences between the HOW
> TO and the way you do it with the newer RH versions...
>
> Tnx in advanced
>
> Chuck
> Kp4djt.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 17:52
> > To: linux-hams
> > Subject: AX25 and Redhat 6.1
> >
> >
> >
> > Greetings everyone,
> >
> > Over the last couple of weeks I have been trying to get AX25 going on
> > Redhat
> > 6.1. I am unable to comple ax25-utils-2.1.42a.tar.gz on the base
> system.
> > I get
> > all sorts of compile errors. In the end I gave up after manually
> editing
> > most
> > of the files and including the errno.h file where needed. It also
> appears
> > that
> > the sockets.h file included by default was not the correct one to use.
> I
> > got
> > most of it to compile but just gave up eventually.
> >
> > I have also tried installing from the RPM's. (ax25-utils-2-1-42a-3 and
> > ax25-utils-2-1-42a-9) This resulted in a different problem. No matter
> > what I
> > did the call program would give me an error to say that none of my ports
> > were
> > active. Well the TNC was in Kiss mode and receiving packets. When I
> did
> > an
> > ifconfig | more I was able to see ax0 was receiving frames and it was
> > reported
> > by the kernel as up. In my book this is active.
> >
> > In the end I tried to give the port an IP address with the ifconfig
> > command. I
> > could not believe it when everything flashed, the TNC went into TX etc.
> I
> > am
> > now able to call my local BBS and everything is great....
> >
> > However, one problem remains. I have an IP address assigned to each of
> my
> > ax
> > ports. This is a problem as I run Samba and a whole host of other
> > packages on
> > my Linux box and I do not wish to see them appear on RF. I cannot
> delete
> > them
> > from the routing table as they are interfaces, not routes and I do not
> > really
> > want to firewall the machine. If I mark the interface as down, I will
> not
> > be
> > able to use AX25 either.... My security policy was to be so simple - No
> IP
> > transport...
> >
> > The ideal solution is to somehow remove IP from the interface and leave
> > ax25 up.
> > Has anyone worked out how to solve this problem? I notice there are a
> few
> > other
> > people who have got AX25 running with an IP address.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Richard
> > VK2HDJ
> >
>
