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From: Tomi Manninen <oh2bns@sral.fi>
To: Linux-hams List <linux-hams@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: New node questions
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:38:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1081521525.1277.5.camel@oh2bns.ampr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002001c41e2e$35e622a0$6301a8c0@wotech.net>

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 15:28, Philip Maley wrote:

> On vk6dlx I just use "vk6dlx" as the mnemonic. It's been like that for
> years and nobody has commented so it must be ok. I never have seen
> anything written on use of the "#" prefix that a few stations use.

Some node software/firmware doesn't propagate nodes that have an
alias beginning with "#". Those aliases are meant for backbone nodes
and this behaviour is a way of "hiding" the backbone nodes from
regular users.

Nowadays this isn't of much use as most(?) implementations don't
comply with this "standard"...

-- 
Tomi Manninen / OH2BNS / KP20ME04


      reply	other threads:[~2004-04-09 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-08 19:15 New node questions Rodolfo Brasnarof
2004-04-09 12:28 ` Philip Maley
2004-04-09 14:38   ` Tomi Manninen [this message]

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