From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Ranch Subject: Re: Packet BBSes on ax25d Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 11:00:59 -0700 Message-ID: <532F215B.3040600@trinnet.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Stuart Longland VK4MSL , linux-hams@vger.kernel.org Hello Stuart, FBB does get some attention now and then but I wouldn't call it active development. I would make sure you're running the newer version to void known issues: "xd705f" is the newest as of 6/2013 is the newest - http://f6bvp.free.fr/logiciels/BBS-f6fbb/xd705f-src.tar.bz2 There is also Jnos which is probably under more development than FBB: http://www.langelaar.net/projects/jnos2/about.html Speaking of BBSes and Outpost, the local ARES/RACES team here in Silicon Valley (Santa Clara) have done a bang up job at building a multi-node packet system using JNOS supporting multi-port RF and Internet backups for full local messaging, BBS forwarding, and SMTP forwarding. This system was co-developed by Jim Oberhofer KN6PE (Outpost developer) and many other local HAMs. You can learn more about this system and maybe save yourself a LOT of time and headaches by contacting that group: http://www.scc-ares-races.org/packet.html That team has developed some installer scripts that take a lot of the pain out of configuring the JNOS, various forwarding rules, etc. to support tactical callsigns, backup relays, etc. --David