From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hamish Moffatt Subject: Re: RFC 1226 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 18:21:49 +1100 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040301072149.GA8323@cloud.net.au> References: <1078104092.23240.181857734@webmail.messagingengine.com> <31DA5BDC-6B39-11D8-B396-000393BB4930@tropo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <31DA5BDC-6B39-11D8-B396-000393BB4930@tropo.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.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 -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB