[Linux-ham] AX.25 quickstart guide

[Tadd Torborg]

I have a solution but it is complicated to set up.  I have been working on scripting it for weeks.  Easy to use, hard to set up.  I should be ready in a week or so for a beta tester.  Needs a raspberry PI and a tnc-PI or three.  

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> On Feb 20, 2014, at 12:35 AM, Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:
> 
> No. ax25d is somewhat akin to inetd in that the socket is handed off to some other program.
> 
> I gather you're looking for a way to route a connection to the human in the shack. This was traditionally done with a program called ttylinkd, but that interacted with talk, which has gone the way of the dodo. I tried getting talkd working with it to no avail.
> 
> I found a new tool called ax25xmpp (https://github.com/jgoerzen/ax25xmpp) but have not tried it out yet. You could use something like Prosody to set up a small Jabber server on the LAN to use with it.
> 
> Hopefully the above gives you some ideas. At their basic level, these things are just reading on stdin and writing on stdout. You could write a shell/Perl/Python/Lua script to send the bits wherever you like. Big LED sign in the shack? Text to speech engine?
> 
> 73 de Kevin N8VNR
> 
>> On 02/20/2014 12:27 AM, Tadd Torborg wrote:
>> When you say “dispatched”  does that mean you get some sort of dialog or text info that says a connection has been made?
>> 
>> Nice work by the way.
>>   Tadd
>> 
>> Tadd Torborg
>> tadd at mac.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 20, 2014, at 12:26 AM, Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Incoming connections can be dispatched with ax25d in the ax25-tools package. Its configuration is located in /etc/ax25/ax25d.conf and on Debian is populated with some examples.
>>> 
>>> (getting ahead of my future docs) If you try to set up the ax25-node package, one gotcha in the ax25d examples is the references to /usr/sbin/node will need to be changed to /usr/sbin/ax25-node. Debian changed the path to avoid confusion with other packages.
>>> 
>>> 73 de Kevin N8VNR
>>> 
>>>> On 02/19/2014 11:47 PM, Tadd Torborg wrote:
>>>> Kevin,
>>>>   if you get an incoming connection, how does that show up?
>>>>    Tadd
>>>> 
>>>> Tadd Torborg
>>>> tadd at mac.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Feb 19, 2014, at 11:31 PM, Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've written up a barebones getting started guide for the in-kernel AX.25 stack.
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://trilug.org/wiki/Ax25Quickstart
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm hoping to come back along and write up some documentation for using the NET/ROM and open-source node implementations as well.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 73 de Kevin N8VNR
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