Re: Writing AX.25 Server Progie

[Chuck Gelm <nc8q@gelm.net>]

Howdy, Y'all:

 IMHO, from what I can tell after subscribing to the Xastir list
for several weeks, is that
the code is development or prototype rather than
stable.

HTH, Chuck

"Curt Mills, WE7U" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, M Taylor wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 12:07:02AM -0600, Kelly Black wrote:
> > > I was wondering if anybody could point me to other sources of socket
> > > programming for AX.25 that are up to date as far as keeping pace with
> > > the libax25 and coding conventions.
> > >
> > > I have to admit that I have never written a C program that used sockets
> > > before, but wish to give it a go.
> > >
> > > Sketchy details of the end product:
> > > Replacement of ARES/Data program used for the Twin Cities Marathon in
> > > Minnesota.  I would like to write a program to be more tailored to this
> >
> > I would look at some of the APRS software, I think there is some simple
> > clients/servers which should be less "strange" than the utilities
> > and low-level applications than come with the stock ax25-tools and ax25-apps.
> 
> Like Xastir?  That's the
 (under development)
>                          APRS app that's written in C and runs on
> Unix/Linux/Mac OSX (so far).  I think most of the socket stuff is in
> interface.c.  I've been told that the way we do an AX.25 receive is
> not the most efficient, but it works.  Something about that we can
> get all packets for all interfaces from the one call, but the way we
> do it we're separating the packets for each interface and throwing
> away the rest?  Details are fuzzy.
> 
> Anyway, it's 
 (under development)
>              working code, and constantly being maintained.
> 
> If your application is GPL'ed, you can use pieces of the code
> directly:
> 
>     http://www.xastir.org
> 
> Go to Sourceforge project page/CVS/Browse CVS Repository to get to
> the individual files, or snag the whole thing via CVS or a file
> download.  Stick to the development releases if you grab a file.
> They run MUCH better than the last "stable" release.
> 
> --
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