kissnetd/net2kiss etc..

kissnetd/net2kiss etc..

[Ted Gervais]

I wonder if someone might have a solution to my query here. I have the 
ax25 utils installed and working with a vhf port configured and is being 
used by my FBB bbs.  My tnc is a kantronics KPC-9612+ and I am only using 
the vhf (1200baud) port.

The predicment is that I also want to use this same tnc to serve a jnos 
installation and I have the notion that I can share this (vhf) between the 
ax25 utils and Jnos using something like 'net2kiss' or 'kissnetd' etc..

I wonder if anyone has been successful in doing this and if so could pass 
along their solution.  But first of all here is my ax25 setup showing how 
it is enabled through the utilities:

# vhf port is on ax1
/usr/sbin/mkiss -s 9600 /dev/ttyS1 /dev/ptyb1 /dev/ptyb2
/usr/sbin/kissattach -l -m 256 /dev/ttyb1 vhf 44.135.34.201
/usr/sbin/kissattach -l -m 256 /dev/ttyb2 uhf 44.135.34.201

How is kissnetd attached to that?
And if net2kiss is the solution is it used like this:
net2kiss -i ax1 /dev/ptyq3....with jnos using /dev/ttyq3 ??
For jnos this doesn't work, by the way..

Any thoughts would be appreciated..


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Ted Gervais
Coldbrook, Nova Scotia
Canada. (ve1drg)

Re: kissnetd/net2kiss etc..

[Bill Vodall WA7NWP]

> 
> # vhf port is on ax1
> /usr/sbin/mkiss -s 9600 /dev/ttyS1 /dev/ptyb1 /dev/ptyb2
> /usr/sbin/kissattach -l -m 256 /dev/ttyb1 vhf 44.135.34.201
> /usr/sbin/kissattach -l -m 256 /dev/ttyb2 uhf 44.135.34.201
> 
> How is kissnetd attached to that?
> And if net2kiss is the solution is it used like this:
> net2kiss -i ax1 /dev/ptyq3....with jnos using /dev/ttyq3 ??
> For jnos this doesn't work, by the way..
> 
> Any thoughts would be appreciated..

net2kiss is an amazing little widget.  It lets JNOS run as an 
independent virtual computer on the packet system.

In my linux setup, I have:

---

echo "Initiating AX0 net2kiss connection for JNOS"
    /usr/sbin/net2kiss -i ax0 /dev/ptyp8 &
   echo "Allowing time for net2kiss to initialize "
   sleep 2
---

And then in the autoexec.nos, to attach the to the pseudo tty I have:

---
# linked connection to Linux AX0 port
#
# Attached pseudo tty linked to Linux ax0 packet port
# started with: /usr/sbin/net2kiss -i ax0 /dev/ptyp8 &
#
attach asy ttyp8 - ax25 vhf 512 236 9600
ifconfig vhf linkaddress wa7nwp-6
ifconfig vhf ipaddress 192.168.127.5
ifconfig vhf broadcast 192.168.127.255
ifconfig vhf ax25 maxframe 2
ax25 route add ID vhf GHAEC
ax25 route add MAIL vhf GHAEC
trace vhf 311
---

Hope that helps...

73,
Bill - WA7NWP

PS. - now if there were only a net2kpchostmode program...  So much time, 
so many more projects...