From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au>
To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC 1226
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 18:21:49 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040301072149.GA8323@cloud.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31DA5BDC-6B39-11D8-B396-000393BB4930@tropo.org>
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:30:40PM -0600, Mike Murphree wrote:
> On Feb 29, 2004, at 7:21 PM, Nick Schmalenberger wrote:
> >> Why
> >>doesn't APRS use IP and UDP? Thanks.
>
> APRS was designed for packet radio, and not the internet...
Indeed. APRS could send UDP packets over broadcast IP, but what would
be the benefit? You have several extra layers of protocol (at least 30
bytes of headers) for no benefit.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-01 7:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-01 1:21 RFC 1226 Nick Schmalenberger
2004-03-01 4:30 ` Mike Murphree
2004-03-01 7:21 ` Hamish Moffatt [this message]
2004-03-01 15:34 ` Tomi Manninen
2004-03-01 18:39 ` Leo Bistmans
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