Re: BBS Software

[Dave Stubbs <dave.stubbs@utoronto.ca>]

Bill Vodall wrote:

> Hi Dave,
> 
> 
>>I was looking at the Linux version of JNOS recently, I compiled and ran 
>>it on a Linux system that already had 3 ethernet interfaces with full 
>>TCP/IP, AX.25, and NET/ROM running in the Linux kernel.  JNOS didn't see 
>>any of these interfaces, so I'm assuming it has it's own network stack 
>>that is different from the OS one?
> 
> 
> Yes.  Think of JNOS as a virtual machine.   It's almost totally separate for the Linux
> box.   You connect the JNOS system to the Linux box with a slip link over
> a pseudo tty using net2kiss and slattach.   A google on those terms should give you
> the necessary incancation -- if not I can forward the relevant parts from my setup.
> 
> 

Ah!

Well, at least that makes sense then, and my conclusions were pretty 
accurate.

My take on the whole situation is that the JNOS on Linux is great for a 
person who used JNOS for many years back in the DOS days and learned it 
well.  I have a suspicion that, for someone like myself who is a new ham 
but who has used Linux daily ever since 1993, I might just be better off 
sticking with the Linux Kernel AX.25 stuff.  It probably offers 
comparable functionality to JNOS, but is much more familiar because it 
is from "my world".

73
Dave
VA3BHF