Re: ax.25 localhost?

[Tomi Manninen <oh2bns@sral.fi>]

On 07/22/2012 08:20 AM, Charles Boling (AD7UF) wrote:
>
>> But I know that NET/ROM in Linux does support loopback. You can connect
>> to any NET/ROM service on your system from your system.
>
> How does that work?  If I try connecting to myself, I just get:
> 	axcall: NET/ROM callsign or alias not found
>
> I then tried adding myself into my own node list using nrparms, but
> since it wants an AX.25 device, we're back to the same problem; it calls
> out on that device and doesn't find itself.

Yeah, I noticed that it doesn't work with axcall (wow, it's been
a while since I last typed "modprobe netrom" ... :)

After taking a quick look, it seems that axcall has it's own
function for looking up the nodes, and it only looks at the
kernel netrom routing table (/proc/net/nr_nodes).

LinuxNode uses the libax25 find_node() function which also
includes any local running netrom interfaces to the list
of nodes. So right now I guess this netrom loopback thing
only works from within LinuxNode (netrom_call also seems
to work but it's bit of pain to use from command line
as it doesn't translate the EOLs...)

/Tomi