Re: Packet BBSes on ax25d

[Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.yi.org>]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 21:13:22 +1100, Ray Wells wrote:

>> 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.

Interesting, I've tried again but last time I submitted my email address 
via their subscribe form (Mailman) nothing arrived.

I've tried again, maybe this time it'll work.

> 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.

That's what I figured, but could never get to work.  I could at best get 
it to answer, but then typing commands did absolutely nothing.

xfbbC -c, as per the instructions, just did a poor emulation of /bin/cat, 
and I couldn't figure out how to kill it.  Telnet would talk to me: it'd 
tell me my callsign wasn't registered.

(Not registered with whom I wonder, did it check the ACMA or its own 
password file?)