From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Stubbs Subject: Re: Convers Setup Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:29:19 -0400 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <417D45FF.5060600@utoronto.ca> References: <417D35BD.9020709@utoronto.ca> <200410251818.i9PIIfks003119@yagi.h-net.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200410251818.i9PIIfks003119@yagi.h-net.msu.edu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org I'm looking to *primarily* service AX.25 callers, since this is for ARES use. Interesting - the coversd-saupp download links are all broken... Dave VA3BHF Dennis Boone wrote: > > Has anyone run any of these convers servers before? Have you been > > on convers chats before where you could actually tell what server > > software you were connecting to? Were any of the above "really good"? > > or "really bad"? > >I have run htpp. It's prone to occasional segfaults. My users have >mostly been lightweight types, and have connected via ax.25, rather >than IP. Other than the segfaults, I've not had problems with it. > >That said, you might consider using an IRC server instead of a >convers server. There's a fair amount of commonality; in many >user communities, there'll be more experience with IRC than convers. >IRC servers are typically far more heavily (ab)used and thus much more >resistant to abuse. If you need to provide service to ax.25 callers, >it should be possible to use ax25d+shims to provide client service >using something like the text-mode sirc client. > >Dennis Boone >KB8ZQZ >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >