From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stuart Longland Subject: Re: Packet BBSes on ax25d Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:27:28 +1000 Message-ID: <0eh50b-t7c.ln1@atomos.longlandclan.yi.org> References: <20140323080815.GA15209@gjcp.net> <532EB3C2.5090803@exemail.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.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?)