Re: no sign of radio.linux.org.au?!

2000-04-24 Thread Terry Dawson
Hamish Moffatt wrote: radio.linux.org.au seems to have disappeared from the DNS! Does anyone know where it's gone? I can't remember TerryD's email address. Sorry. Yes we're experiencing DNS problems. It's a bit of a cock-up frankly, our primary failed and that wasn't a good time to discover

#hamradio IRC channel on OpenProjects IRC network

2000-03-10 Thread Terry Dawson
Hello all, A group of us have registered the #hamradio IRC channel on the OpenProjects IRC network to discuss amateur radio and opensource software, and generally congregate. All are welcome to come along. The list of servers is available at: http://www.openprojects.nu/ -

Re: Minimum installation Linux+AX.25+TCP/IP ??

2000-03-01 Thread Terry Dawson
Ismael Pellejero Ibáñez wrote: I want to know how much HD space may use a minimum Linux installation with AX.25+TCP/IP support, and wich packages should I install. We have several PCs with small HDs and want to use AX.25+TCP/IP possibilities if possible :-) You can do a 'node'

Re: NEW-AX.25 (was: FLEXNET flamewar) other unix's ???????

2000-02-27 Thread Terry Dawson
Dirk Koopman wrote: Is that actually true? I know that it is generally received wisdom, but if the device drivers handled the level 1 issues (including txd, txtail etc) and stopped there, would it _actually_ be necessary to have the rest in the kernel. I was using "belongs" in the sense of

Re: NEW-AX.25 (was: FLEXNET flamewar) other unix's ???????

2000-02-26 Thread Terry Dawson
ron jochems wrote: Is it true ax25 is only written for linux, or can these utils be easely be adapted in other unix's .?. The short answer is "yes, it is true". Much of the Linux AX.25/NetRom/Rose functionality belongs in the kernel at the heart of the operating system. Until the *BSD's get

Re: GW-List - kissnetd not working?

2000-02-12 Thread Terry Dawson
Chris Smith wrote: I run kissnetd /dev/ptyzf /dev/ptyze Then kissattach /dev/ptyzf port ipaddr and get : kissattach: open: Input/output error kissnetd should be opening the slave end of the pty, and kissattach should be opening the master end. You've got them both opening the same end.

Re: Status of kernel AX.25 implementation.

2000-02-10 Thread Terry Dawson
Hans-Peter Zorn wrote: If monitored _this_ list, you wouldn't have missed Jens' announcement that he does currently work on Matthias' stack as long as Matthias is busy with other things. Diskussions of the new implementation have been _here_ on linux-hams, and I really hope this will not

Re: Routing problem

2000-02-06 Thread Terry Dawson
Michele A Debandi wrote: In fact, the correct behaviour is to send an ICMP redirect, and resend the packet anyway. But I'm not sure if the ICMP redirect is made if the packet has a route to another gateway os is sent ever if the station is directly reachable. I have to find my CD with all

Re: What triggers repeated poll/final transmissions?

2000-02-04 Thread Terry Dawson
John Ackermann wrote: The Linux setup is kernel 2.0.34 with ax25-module-14 and utils 2.1.42a. For the 19.2 link, we're running a T1 timer of 2.5 seconds, and T2 timer of 200ms. [Fri Feb 4 20:40:00 2000] Port pi0a: AX25: N8BJQ-W8APR-3 RR C P R0 [Fri Feb 4 20:40:00 2000] Port pi0a:

Re: DG2FEF-AX.25 Patch for 2.2.14 available

2000-02-03 Thread Terry Dawson
Gerd wrote: As the maintainer of the german version of the AX.25-HOWTO (and, if nobody has something against that) the english retranslation of that document, I am herewith offering support in sorting that information and melting it together into a, let's say, AX.25 programming HOWTO. On

Re: Subject: sendmail + masq/ipfw solutions for multi-user system?

2000-02-03 Thread Terry Dawson
"James S. Kaplan KG7FU" wrote: This message only turned up here today, no idea where it has been for two weeks. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't address groups such as 192.168 and 44.0 considered "private" nets and technically aren't supposed to be routed via internet? Even if they were,

Re: Routing problem

2000-02-03 Thread Terry Dawson
Robin Gilks wrote: Is there another parameter or does Linux strictly not allow routing back out the same port. If this is the case I've got some serious rethinking to do :-(( Robin, I'm suffering precisely the same problem and have been for some time. I'm completely baffled by it myself.

Re: API and driver interface

2000-02-03 Thread Terry Dawson
Jens David wrote: And the number of daemons the user has to run high. Didn´t you just say that a linux packet-radio setup needs to be easy to administrate by the end user? ;) "Number of daemons required" is not a measure of "ease of administration". Frankly when it comes to architecture in

Re: DG2FEF-AX.25 Patch for 2.2.14 available

2000-02-02 Thread Terry Dawson
Thorsten Kranzkowski wrote: I would guess, that exactly these people don't install stuff themselves but rather eventually do an update with a new RedHat/Suse/Debian/whatever distribution. They will get a new Kernel _along_ with matching application software. I think you'll find they're

Re: DG2FEF-AX.25 Patch for 2.2.14 available

2000-02-02 Thread Terry Dawson
Jan Wasserbauer wrote: I think it would be very nice to have also unified API for drivers. Now many drivers have own configuration utilities which is not wery good. Most of drivers just need irq/io/dma/number of channels (which in some cases could be replaced by just com/lpt number). Plus

Re: DG2FEF-AX.25 Patch for 2.2.14 available

2000-02-02 Thread Terry Dawson
Thorsten Kranzkowski wrote: We should be looking toward being as consistent with the rest of the Linux networking standards as possible. Absolutely. What I personally wish is that the ax25-Interfaces are referenced with their kernel-net-device-name (e.g. bcsf0, ax1 ...) instead by means

Re: DG2FEF-AX.25 Patch for 2.2.14 available

2000-02-02 Thread Terry Dawson
Thorsten Kranzkowski wrote: I think one can assume nobody installs an older kernel than the distro- supplied one. The original question was whether new _userspace_ tools/apps should support _older_ kernel API. Or did I get that wrong :-) ? The question isn't really that simple. If it's a

Re: Updated HTPP Convers server available

2000-01-30 Thread Terry Dawson
Robert A Jenkins wrote: (If anyone knows of any other bugs, please let me know I'll have a go at fixing them.) I'll call this a bug if the answer to either of the following questions is no :) Has the convers server-server protocol been documented anywhere? Has the convers user command

Re: AX.25 Configuration HOWTO

2000-01-27 Thread Terry Dawson
Gerd wrote: Yes, but there's one thing you should be aware of (I have seen it on Debian 2.0 the last time). make-kpkg relies on "make config". One has to answer all the questions one by one there. For people that prefer "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig" the make-kpkg tool seems to be not

Re: KCT ??.

2000-01-26 Thread Terry Dawson
Erik Jakobsen wrote: Does anybody know where to get the KCT linuxpackage ??. I have the KCT board here with the software in dos that followed the card, but not much fun if running linux and having just dos software :-) http://radio.linux.org.au/pkgdetail.phtml?pkgid=76 regards Terry

Re: KCT ??.

2000-01-26 Thread Terry Dawson
Erik Jakobsen wrote: I have seen that F6FBB has released som patches, but I need the complete package to could start. Do I not ??. The patches are against a 2.2.13 kernel and add support for the KCT to the kernel. Applications with appropriate support can then make use of it. A patch file is

Re: [OT] Linux hardware requirements

2000-01-25 Thread Terry Dawson
"Ing. Jose A. Amador" wrote: This seems a newbie question to me, but I also need to clarify this: How can I use either libc5 or glibc under demand or at will ? What / where should I read ? Application programs will use whichever libraries they were linked against at compile time. use the

Re: IP over NET/ROM question

2000-01-25 Thread Terry Dawson
Hans-Peter Zorn wrote: # /usr/sbin/nrattach netrom # ifconfig nr0 44.136.8.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 hw netrom # VK2KTJ-9 # route add 44.136.8.5 nr0 --- snip -- Why do I need a route to the interface ip address? Shouldn't that be a network route (which is set up

Re: IP over NET/ROM question

2000-01-25 Thread Terry Dawson
Hans-Peter Zorn wrote: (I think it would be rather annoying if 20+ stations at a user qrg would broadcast every 5 minutes?) Most networks I know use 30 minutes, not 5 minutes. Terry

Re: New AX.25 and newest kernel 2.2.14: first test results

2000-01-24 Thread Terry Dawson
Gerd wrote: I'm a Debian developer, I'm not running slink. So there are plans to use 2.2.x kernels on Debian, too? Of course. Terry

Re: Subject: sendmail + masq/ipfw solutions for multi-user system?

2000-01-23 Thread Terry Dawson
Richard Adams wrote: define(`confBIND_OPTS',`-DNSRCH -DEFNAMES')dnl And where is one supposed to find that define ?? Richard, It goes in your sendmail M4 configuration file. In Debian it is called /etc/mail/sendmail.mc. Terry

Re: [OT] Linux hardware requirements

2000-01-23 Thread Terry Dawson
dpfister wrote: Has anyone compiled or found a kernel for a very small SBC? Mine has a 386 at 25 or 40 MHz I don't remember with only 2 MB of ram and a 8 MB Disk on a Chip sort of HD. 2Mb is probably asking for a lot. I need very little for this kernel, no terminal will be connected but

Re: Help please using Netscape with jnos

2000-01-23 Thread Terry Dawson
Richard Ferryman wrote: I have managed to get netscape to read mail from the jnos spool/mail directory but how can I get it to put replies or new mail to the spool/mqueue queue? At present it seems to go to a black hole.. Supply communicator with the IP address of your JNOS to use as the

Re: New AX.25 and newest kernel 2.2.14: first test results

2000-01-22 Thread Terry Dawson
On 21 Jan, Gerd wrote: And that is the main question: Is there still an effect, a benefit from all these improvements even if the newest kernel is run on the 386 DX 40 mentioned above? Or, in other words, can it be recommended to upgrade even such old machines to the current kernel?

Re: SMP?

2000-01-22 Thread Terry Dawson
On 20 Jan, Dirk Koopman wrote: It appears to transmit, but does not receive. Running listen -a on other (non SMP) boxes shows both the out going TX and the reply packets, but on the SMP box only outgoing packets are visible. My SMP machine (BP6) does not experience the problem you describe.

Re: New AX.25 and newest kernel 2.2.14: first test results

2000-01-22 Thread Terry Dawson
On 20 Jan, Gerd wrote: But in a lot of publications and also in a lot of user statements in the Usenet, repeatedly, such requirements were announced. You're not cynical enough about mainstream press. Those sorts of configurations might be recommended by distributions for "typical" user

Re: New AX.25 and newest kernel 2.2.14: first test results

2000-01-21 Thread Terry Dawson
On 19 Jan, Gerd wrote: Pentium class computer, preferrably 300 MHz and above 64 MB RAM or more (the more, the better) These are wildly exaggerated requirements for Linux. So, I even was a little bit afraid if Slackware 7, which comes with 2.2.13, would run on my K6-2/400 with 64 MB RAM -

Re: Subject: sendmail + masq/ipfw solutions for multi-user system?

2000-01-20 Thread Terry Dawson
On 18 Jan, Bob Nielsen wrote: Has anyone come up with a method to convert the ampr.org listings from ftp.ucsd.edu to a proper format to use with bind (which appears to me to be more difficult to set up than sendmail?) I'm looking for a solution which could be used on a system not connected

Re: Subject: sendmail + masq/ipfw solutions for multi-user system?

2000-01-18 Thread Terry Dawson
On 18 Jan, James S. Kaplan wrote: 1) sendmail is tough to configure!! I need in/out tcp mail to the net/lan AND very much desire ampr.org and pbbs smtp mail in and out. I've looked and zmail (I think!) and mailgw and am not impressed with the documentation. In other words, it seems like the

Re: New

2000-01-08 Thread Terry Dawson
On 6 Jan, Bob Nielsen wrote: http://radio.linux.org.au has it all (or at least most). Bob, What is missing you should contribute. There is a form there for the purpose. regards Terry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New

2000-01-08 Thread Terry Dawson
On 9 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Terry, Here's what I use: http://www.lantz.com I'm confused, what am I supposed to do with this? Terry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New

2000-01-07 Thread Terry Dawson
On 6 Jan, Bob Snyder wrote: I just signed up to this list. I'm interested in getting some Linux based radio software. Is there a good place for some links/downloads? Right now my main concerns are logging and digital modes. Bob, Surely: http://radio.linux.org.au/ Terry -- [EMAIL

Re: ax25ipd

2000-01-04 Thread Terry Dawson
On 4 Jan, Craig Small wrote: Do you want me to split-out the ax25ipd stuff out of ax25-tools? Craig, I think it's a good idea to split it out. It's something that is required by a comparatively small group of users and has no dependence on libax25 at all, ie it's completely standalone.

Re: English ax25-howto

1999-12-21 Thread Terry Dawson
On 21 Dec, Normando Marcolongo (account per amministrazione lug) wrote: Is it possible that there isn't an ENGLISH document about new libs/utils/kernel? Will AX25-HOWTO be updated? Please, anyone can supply me addresses of new documents about that? The english one hasn't been updated in

Re: radio.linux.org.au

1999-12-11 Thread Terry Dawson
On 11 Dec, Gareth Rowlands wrote: Can any kind reader tell me if the little goldmine that is the radio.linux.org.au box also has an ampr.org 44 network address, and if so, is it accessible via the encap wormholes ? It doesn't yet, but I'm seriously considering it, especially if there is

Re: RFC: Split AX-25 HOWTO??

1999-09-01 Thread Terry Dawson
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 05:58:53PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided after getting burned out on all this Y2K update stuff, to grab a copy of the AX25-HOWTO and start updating it! After creating a simple index of all the topics, I've come to the quick conclusion that I think

Re: RFC: Split AX-25 HOWTO??

1999-09-01 Thread Terry Dawson
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:56:43AM +, Gerd wrote: 2. AX.25-Software-HOWTO -contains the basic application setup -contains hints on available Packet Radio Software for Linux (Terminal programs, BBSs etc.) - the HAM HOWTO could be disburdened a little bit The HAM-HOWTO will cease to

AX25-HOWTO .. Who took it over?

1999-08-30 Thread Terry Dawson
I've lost the name/email/callsign of the person who took over the AX25-HOWTO. If you're out there, could you get back to me please? regards Terry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ANNOUNCE: dev-hams mailing list

1999-08-15 Thread Terry Dawson
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 10:22:11AM +0300, Tomi Manninen OH2BNS wrote: Quoting Hessu's original announcement of the dev-hams list: Following recent discussion it was decided to publish the existence of the list, and make the mailing list archive available for anyone to read. snip

Re: ANNOUNCE: dgipip - dynamic IPIP gateway client/server for Linux

1999-08-14 Thread Terry Dawson
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 08:24:33AM -0700, Bob Meyer wrote: Did I screw something up? It's perl script... that is the source code. It compiles at run time. No, I did :) I didn't realise it was perl. We'd better get it listed in the radio software data base ... Ya know, I'm just a dumb

Re: ANNOUNCE: dev-hams mailing list

1999-08-13 Thread Terry Dawson
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 08:22:35PM +, Julian Munoz Dominguez wrote: I hope the rest of the dev-hams subscribees don't mind me speaking on their behalf, but to be on the safe side assume that the contents of this message are my opinion only, although I'm fairly confident the others would

Re: radio.linux.org.au

1999-08-08 Thread Terry Dawson
On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 09:45:04AM +0100, Riley Williams wrote: One obvious reason would be to make it more attractive to people using it, as many people give up on a site that regularly times out on them. I've so far tried three times, and each time, you time out on me!!! Since I don't get

Re: radio.linux.org.au

1999-08-07 Thread Terry Dawson
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 12:20:18PM +0200, alberto escudero wrote: It looks like that the default php3 page queries to the mySQL engine for New Software... (checking the date i guess!) every time the page is asked... is that right? yes, that is correct. It will be a good idea to have the

Re: radio.linux.org.au

1999-07-13 Thread Terry Dawson
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 12:10:04PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! Does this offer include updating the AX25 Howto?? :) Absolutely, if someone wants to take over the AX25-HOWTO, they're welcome to it. Terry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I am here!

1999-04-28 Thread Terry Dawson
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 11:17:17PM +0200, Jaime Robles wrote: I think Terry, the HAM-HOWTO mantainer is in the list... Terry, could you please mail me? I would like to talk you about the Spanish translation of HAM-HOWTO. You dont' need to talk to me. The document is covered by the GPL.

Re: bring down a KISS interface

1999-04-24 Thread Terry Dawson
On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 02:18:04PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: 1. How do I bring down the network interface? I can ifconfig ax0 down, but how do I kissdetach? Killing kissattach leaves a stale lock file on the serial port. SIGTERM is the cleanest way of closing a kissattach, but

Re: Proposal to abandon the HAM-HOWTO in its current form.

1999-04-21 Thread Terry Dawson
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 06:30:19PM +0100, Riley Williams wrote: Section 3: An index to software available for the ham to help with his or her hobby, grouped by category, and an index to the same software listed alphabetically by name, both stating

Re: Proposal to abandon the HAM-HOWTO in its current form.

1999-04-21 Thread Terry Dawson
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 10:08:47AM -0400, Bloom, Jon, KE3Z wrote: The next step, it seems to me, is to put together an outline of the book. Trying to determine a page count is pointless until you know what material you're going to cover. Jon, Let's see what the outline of the HOWTO that

Re: Proposal to abandon the HAM-HOWTO in its current form.

1999-04-20 Thread Terry Dawson
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 02:56:00PM -, Mike Bilow wrote: Jameson Burt wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: JB Because the HAM-HOWTO has not been updated in 2 years, someone JB new should take over its maintenance. I can think of a couple JB extra class HAMs who spend much time writing

Re: Proposal to abandon the HAM-HOWTO in its current form.

1999-04-16 Thread Terry Dawson
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 08:40:00PM -, Mike Bilow wrote: The LDP is unlikely to revoke HOWTO status for something that has been in as long as the HAM HOWTO, as long as it has a maintainer. They might be more selective about new additions, but we get a lot of benefit from inertia. You

Re: Proposal to abandon the HAM-HOWTO in its current form.

1999-04-15 Thread Terry Dawson
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 03:50:30PM +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote: Maybe a way forward is to look at 'DocBook' format, which is used by the gnome people (amongst others). This seems to be a pretty useful sgml DTD which has tools to convert it to every format you are likely to want already written.

Re: Proposal to abandon the HAM-HOWTO in its current form.

1999-04-15 Thread Terry Dawson
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 12:48:11PM -0400, Bloom, Jon, KE3Z wrote: It would be nice to continue to have a ham radio presence within the LDP (other than the AX25-HOWTO). Terry, can you briefly synopsize the requirements that a HOWTO must conform to? Is the problem with the current HAM-HOWTO

Re: Proposal to abandon the HAM-HOWTO in its current form.

1999-04-14 Thread Terry Dawson
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 09:46:07AM -0400, Al Woodhull wrote: Maybe I missed something along the way, could you provide information or a pointer to information about the proposed redefinition of the HOWTO format? Perhaps someone else will be willing to take up the conversion or re-creation of