From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Flynn G7OCD Subject: Re: Status of AX.25 in 2.5 / 2.6 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 09:14:42 +0100 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D464AF2.8040506@btinternet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org Tomi Manninen wrote: > Yes. That is why you should not have any user services (that are called > with plain AX.25) like LinuxNode or a BBS using the same callsign as you > have in ifconfig/axports. I'm aware fully of the reasons behind this, but when you are running a system with 13 AX25 ports you start running out of SSIDs for your services. I've had to start naming services with names that aren't valid callsigns like 'MARTCONV' and 'SDGBBS' because before long I'm going to have used all the SSIDs for ports... It's limiting but we just have to put up with it or choose a new L2 addressing scheme. J PS Anyone still not conviced about different L2 callsigns and IP addresses needed for each amateur port should think about the MACs and IPs on an internet router... Then the light should switch on :-)