Re: FBB 7.04p with xfbbX X11 client for FBB working

Bernard Pidoux <pidoux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 02 May 2008 10:45:32 +0200

Hi John,

I suggest you keep on using the version that works for you.

The problem with AX25 libs, apps and tools is that there is no more 

"official" versions as the interest for packet radio fell down during 

the last years.

There is no more official repository for AX25 packages.
Ralf's DL5RB page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hams
points to obsolete sourceforge address since 2002/09/08 !
However the new address
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ax25/
has an obsolete libax25 source
    *  0.0.10 released with security fix    2002-03-28

Here is another sourceforge repository address
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=24545
from where I downloaded my original versions that I originaly slightly
patched to make them work with 2.6 kernel.

If new official versions were to be released it should have been 

approved at least by a team of users in order to verify that the new 

versions :

- remove a known bug
- do not create a new bug
- improves the functionnality of the software.

Personnaly I could not compile libax25-0.0.13.6 while my version 11.4 

has been installed at least on two dozens of stations with different 

distro and kernel versions. The same for my versions of ax25-tools and apps.

I only removed bugs from the source in order to keep it compatible.

Thus, there is no change into syntaxe and usage of these AX25 libraries 

applications or tools.

When times come, and if interest is growing again, we will probably have 

chance to add new features into these packages if necessary.

Most of my present efforts are aimed at removing bugs from Linux kernel 

ax25 and rose modules.

With 2.6.24.4 we have a pretty stable version.

Kernel 2.6.26 will certainly be even more stable, incorporating a few 

bug corrections too.

You can find here some patchs for kernel 2.6.24.4 and 2.6.25.
http://f6bvp.free.fr/logiciels/kernel-2.6-patch/

Concerning LinFBB 7.04p, although it works, there are still some problems.
Forwarding does not close some sockets when used via rose interface.

More important, LinFBB does not work at all with SMP kernels 

(Simultaneous Multi Processing). The bad thing is that many distro are 

now installing such SMP kernels by default. So, people have to recompile 

it without this option.

I received some reports about /proc/sys/net/ax25 missing with the last 

Ubuntu distro.

73 de Bernard, f6bvp

AA6QN a écrit :

Bernard Pidoux wrote:
------------------

First, I wish to say thank you for all your hard work! I have been 

running FBB for many years now and really like the software.

Recently, I have been met with a couple of challenges. When I upgraded 

the libax25 to 13-6, I lost my FBB loopback interfaces. Guess I am old 

school and during the ax25 startup I defined two loopback interfaces:

# /etc/conf.d/rc.ax25 Create Loopback ports
/usr/local/sbin/kissnetd /dev/ptya3 /dev/ptya4 &
sleep 2
/usr/local/sbin/kissattach -l -m 256 /dev/ttya3 ax3 44.8.0.112
/usr/local/sbin/kissattach -l -m 256 /dev/ttya4 ax4 44.8.0.112
route del -net 44.0.0.0/8 ax3
route del -net 44.0.0.0/8 ax4

# /etc/ax25/axports
#  Name Callsign        speed           paclen  window  description
ax0     AA6QN-9         115200          256     7       AXIP Link

ax1     AA6QN-12        9600            256     1       1200 bps Port A 

DE (pending)

ax2     AA6QN-11        9600            256     2       9600 bps Port B 

DE 439.050 MHz

ax3     LOOP1           9600            256     4       Loopback 1
ax4     LOOP2           9600            256     4       Loopback 2

Then in /usr/local/etc/ax25/fbb/port.sys where-as ax4 is the loopback

#TNC NbCh Com MultCh Pacln Maxfr NbFwd MxBloc M/P-Fwd Mode  Freq
 0   0    0   0         0  0     0      0     00/01   ----  File-fwd.
 1   4    1   ax1     250  1     2     10     10/60   XUWY pending
 2   4    1   ax2     250  1     2     10     20/60   XUWY 439.050
 3   4    1   ax0     250  2     2     10     30/30   XUWY ax0
 4   4    1   ax4     250  4     2     10     30/60   XUWY ax4
 5   2    1   netbbs  236  1     1     10     30/30   XUWY netrom
 6   2    2   0       250  2     1     10      0/60   TUWY telnet
#

This all works great with libax25-0.0.11-4 but not libax25-0.0.13-6
What did I miss? is there a new way to link FBB to the AX25 resources?

I also tried to update to ax25-tools-0.0.9-3 but mkiss did not load my 

dual port tnc stating it could not find the CALL. Same axport as above 

with ax1 and ax2 being the dual ported tnc. ax25-tools-0.0.8.2 does work:

#/etc/conf.d/rc.ax25# Attach Dual TNC with MKISS COM2
/usr/local/sbin/mkiss -s 9600 /dev/ttyS1 /dev/ptya0 /dev/ptya1
sleep 2
/usr/local/sbin/kissattach -l -m 256 /dev/ttya0 ax1 44.8.0.112
/usr/local/sbin/kissattach -l -m 256 /dev/ttya1 ax2 44.8.0.112
route del -net 44.0.0.0/8 ax1
route del -net 44.0.0.0/8 ax2
kissparms -p ax1 -t 30 -s 100 -r 63
kissparms -p ax2 -t 10 -s 100 -r 63

Once again, did I miss some changes in the configuration? The install 

notes were rather vague on syntax changes.

Very best regards, John Feist AA6QN

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