Re: ax25d not hearing incoming connection requests (fwd)

["Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u@xxxxxxxxx>]

Found another that might be relevant.  Hope it helps!

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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:23:53 -0800 (PST)
From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Jon Sowman <jon.sowman@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Bob <kd7nm@xxxxxxxx>, Ken Koster <n7ipb@xxxxxxxxxx>, archer@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: ax25d not hearing incoming connection requests

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Jon Sowman wrote:
>
> > Continuing in this vein, I don't believe the conn REQ is even getting as far
> > as ax25d. Here's how I've come to this conclusion:
>
> Stupid question (mostly because I see that later in your message you
> show ax25d as listening via netstat):  Did you start ax25d as root?
> You need root access in order to access the ax.25 ports.  That keeps
> biting Xastir users who have to set the executable as SUID Root
> before it's able to open those ports.  Running Xastir as the root
> user is a bad idea so we drop privileges in the C-code when we're
> not directly opening/closing ports.
>
>
> > And that line disappears if I close ax25d. So it is definitely listening,
> > but for some reason cannot hear!
>
> Good info, sounds pretty conclusive to me that it's not listening.

In the latest on-the-air tests I started ax25d as a normal user and
of course it didn't respond.  I restarted it as root and everything
was normal, as normal as the buggy ax25d/axspawn setup I have will
allow that is.  See my latest message to the linux-hams list:  Bob
and I repeated the tests with all of the OpenSuSE-11.0 packages
updated to the latest available and came up with the same list of
bugs.  Next is to upgrade the machine to OpenSuSE-11.1 (I have it
running on three machines already, just not that one).

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