Re: AX25 to Telnet to CONV

[Bill Vodall WA7NWP <wa7nwp@jnos.org>]

Dennis Boone wrote:
>  > I think I saw some examples on how to do this, but I can't find
>  > them now.
>  > 
>  > Does anybody have notes on how to connect an AX25 connection to a
>  > telnet command with ax25d.conf in Linux?
>  > 
>  > I'd like a Connect Request to WA7NWP-17 to run the command 'telnet
>  > wetnet.net 3600' to hook up to the CONVER server.
> 
> You can use ax25d to invoke a command and hook its std{in,out} up
> to the AX25 socket.  You could use telnet, but I use a shim called
> axconv to create the socket connection to the convers server; it does
> line ending fixup, will auto-sign the caller into convers, etc.
> 
> 	http://he.fi/pub/ham/unix/linux/ax25/axconv.c.gz
> 
> The AX.25 howto has stuff on ax25d configuration:
> 
> 	http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/AX25-HOWTO/x1474.html
> 
> De

It works.  Thank you very much.  I knew there had to be something like
this out there.

73,
Bill


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++ CONNECTED to YYCONV at MINOT
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