Re: Convers Setup

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

I'm looking to *primarily* service AX.25 callers, since this is for ARES 
use.

Interesting - the coversd-saupp download links are all broken...

Dave
VA3BHF

Dennis Boone wrote:

> > Has anyone run any of these convers servers before?  Have you been
> > on convers chats before where you could actually tell what server
> > software you were connecting to?  Were any of the above "really good"?
> > or "really bad"?
>
>I have run htpp.  It's prone to occasional segfaults.  My users have
>mostly been lightweight types, and have connected via ax.25, rather
>than IP.  Other than the segfaults, I've not had problems with it.
>
>That said, you might consider using an IRC server instead of a
>convers server.  There's a fair amount of commonality; in many
>user communities, there'll be more experience with IRC than convers.
>IRC servers are typically far more heavily (ab)used and thus much more
>resistant to abuse.  If you need to provide service to ax.25 callers,
>it should be possible to use ax25d+shims to provide client service
>using something like the text-mode sirc client.
>
>Dennis Boone
>KB8ZQZ
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