From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Wells Subject: Re: Packet BBSes on ax25d Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 21:13:22 +1100 Message-ID: <532EB3C2.5090803@exemail.com.au> References: <20140323080815.GA15209@gjcp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140323080815.GA15209@gjcp.net> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Gordon JC Pearce , linux-hams@vger.kernel.org On 23/03/14 19:08, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 06:02:58PM +1000, Stuart Longland VK4MSL wrote: >> So since ax25d works, I'm on the look-out for some BBS software that >> could possibly work within ax25d. >> >> I recognise this has been asked before: back in 1998. I ask now >> in case things have changed. >> >> Has anyone seen such software? >> Regards, >> Stuart Longland > I was looking for some too, but couldn't find any and couldn't even get the old software working well enough to try and characterise how it worked. > > Maybe it's time to start from scratch. What should a packet BBS do? > The xfbb mailing list is still active and might be a good place to ask questions. The maintainer of xfbb is Bernard, F6BVP, who frequents this list, but many xfbb users do not. Reflecting back to when I ran xfbb the only configuration for ax25d was for Netrom calls to connect to fpacnode. xfbb did it's own listening for ax25 traffic via kernel ax25 ports. Ray vk2tv