Re: Some packet questions...

["IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USN" <teners@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/31/06 4:50 AM, "Mike McCarthy, W1NR" <lists@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Nothing has really changed in many years, so the documentation hasn't had
> any reason to be revised.
> 
> I found my local IP address coordinator very helpful in getting IP over
> AX.25 running.

I have been given so many stories concerning IP address coordination that I
got fed up with even trying to coordinate! First I was assigned a 32 address
block in the Philly area, then I was told in California that it would not be
workable. Why not? If this is truly an IP network, why would I need to have
a new set of IP address when only the physical location changed?

I am still interested now to find out what my current IP assignment is, and
as well what the 32 address range is I was given.

> 
> There have been major changes to the Kernel drivers for many of the AX.25
> protocols having to do with SMP.  With dual core processor based systems
> common, this was really needed.

Currently I have a PowerBook (PowerPC based Mac) but plan to upgrade in the
coming months (post Xmas when many "new" Macbooks have been returned after
the Xmas shopping season!) and purchase a new MacBook Pro. When I do that I
will be having an x86 based machine to run both MacOS and Linux on, thus a
machine that support SMP will be of distinct interest to me in the very near
future.

> 
> Do you know what Linux distribution you plan to use?  I prefer openSUSE
> (www.opensuse.org) because the AX.25 kernel modules are built in by default.

I tilt in the general direction of deploying either Fedora (I am more a
RedHat type weenie than SuSE) or Ubuntu on the Mac. Alternatively, I have a
Sun E450 and would consider deploying Ubuntu on it as well, and want to make
AX.25/IP work.

> No Kernel rebuilding required.  The Ham Radio packages are also available at
> ftp.w1nr.net.  If you go that route, use 10.1 "remastered".  The kernel that
> shipped with 10.0 was broken as the AX.25 SMP modifications were not quite
> fully debugged.  The management interface in SUSE can't be beat.

Where does SMP based AX.25 stand in the instant sir?

> 
> Mike, W1NR
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USN" <teners@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <linux-hams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 4:56 PM
> Subject: Some packet questions...
> 
> 
>> To whom it shall concern:
>> 
>>    It has been an exceeding long time since I have been active in the what
>> was "a new mode" back in the day, Packet Radio! Since the late 90s it
>> seems
>> a lot has changed, and the word on the street is that packet has all but
>> in
>> most cases evaporated from the once large network it was (at least from
>> the
>> few people I spoke to at a Hamfest recently in the East Coast).
>> 
>>    Now, personally, I do not know if the evaporation of packet has, indeed
>> really become occurrent, but I am curious to find out if there will be
>> much
>> of an activity level in most major metropolitan areas that I should I
>> think
>> about rebuilding a packet station, and how well it works these days.
>> 
>>    I plan to use a W32A that I have (for the moment) as the radio with the
>> olde 5w/35w amplifier I have from (gasp) RF Concepts/Kantronics, as well
>> as
>> an IC-91AD and/or D700A.
>> 
>>    There is an AX.25 How-To which is very olde that is instructive to the
>> concerns of asserting AX.25 protocol via the Linux Kernel. I am interested
>> to configure a Linux box for the purposes of having an AX.25 router, has a
>> copy of this document been updated anytime lately?
>> 
>>    I was reading in Page 83 of the November 2006 CQ Magazine that someone
>> used a metalized windshield sunshade, and since I was in the kitchen
>> making
>> some pasta at the time, how workable would it be to put a mag-mount on top
>> of a large pasta pot as a ground plane, any comments on that? The antenna
>> under consideration for the "Pasta Pot Ground Plane" would be an SG7900A.
>> 
>> Stuart, N3GWG (Amateur Extra)
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>> Very Respectfully,
>> 
>> IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USN
>> Beverly Hills, California
>> Amateur Radio Call Sign: N3GWG (Extra)
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>> 
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>> 
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Very Respectfully,

IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USN
Beverly Hills, California
Amateur Radio Call Sign: N3GWG (Extra)
email: teners@xxxxxxxxxxx
phone: +(1) 310.358.0202 (Beverly Hills, CA)
phone: +(1) 215.338.6005 (Philadelphia, PA)
E-Fax: +(1) 915.773.0935 (Telecopier)

Military emails (checked monthly until remote NMCI access is secured)
NIPRNET: stuart.tener@xxxxxxxx / tenerstu@xxxxxxx / stuart.tener@xxxxxxx
SIPRNET: NONE
TS/SCI:  cntensb@xxxxxxxxxx (JWICS) / tenerstu@xxxxxxxxxx (GWAN)
TS/SCI:  cntensb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Stone Ghost, TS//SI/REL AUS/CAN/GBR/USA)

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