From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomi Manninen Subject: RE: New node questions Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:38:45 +0300 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1081521525.1277.5.camel@oh2bns.ampr.org> References: <002001c41e2e$35e622a0$6301a8c0@wotech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <002001c41e2e$35e622a0$6301a8c0@wotech.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux-hams List 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