From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rodolfo Brasnarof" Subject: New node questions Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 16:15:27 -0300 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40757A9F.32168.37596D@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Content-description: Mail message body List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org Hi. I'm setting up a new bbs-node for my local club, to replace a dos based one (fbb & bpq). It's based on slackware 9.1, on a 486, with 2 vhf ports. Well, I have a lot of questions: The node: Slackware 9.1 includes linuxnode. I also found awznode. Is there anybody using it, or any other one? Which is best? There seems to be a standard for nodes to use callsign-4. Is that correct? I've seen some examples setting netrom names for a node (mnemonic) preceded with a # as in #NODE. Is that correct. Should I use NODE or #NODE as netrom mnemonic for the node? And what ssid should I use for the netrom port in nrports? Convers daemon: I donwloaded and tried htpp-1.22. It works. Then I've found htppu-1.5 and conversd-saupp. They seem to be derived one on the other, with fixes and patchs. Again, which is best? Digipeater: I'm using digi_ned. It's working fine, as standard digipeater. I want to enable cross port digipeating (as the system has 2 ports). Is there any standard in defining the SSIDs for a cross port digi? For example, I'm trying this: LU6DG digipeat on the same port (standard digi) LU6DG-1 digipeat on port 1 (regardless the input port) LU6DG-2 digipeat on port 2 (regardless the input port) When crossing ports, it does callsing swaping, and works fine. Here's the config for this: digipeat: 1 LU6DG 1 digipeat: 2 LU6DG 2 digipeat: 1 LU6DG-1 1 keep digipeat: 2 LU6DG-1 1 swap LU6DG-2 digipeat: 2 LU6DG-2 2 keep digipeat: 1 LU6DG-2 2 swap LU6DG-1 BBS: A friend has been trying fbb, and it seems to have a problem when doing compressed forward to a dos or windows fbb. Do you know something about it? What about using other bbs program than fbb? What about dpbox? Any suggestion? Thanks for all the help. ----------------- Rodolfo Brasnarof LW6EAH Punta Alta Argentina