Re: Why screw with the AX.25 configs?

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

On Sun, 13 Mar 2011, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> So why, after sweating over a working config, does it become non-working 
> after some time with Linux?
>
> I've had a config that I've tweaked from time to time, but now it appears to 
> work differently in OpenSuSE-11.3.
>
> Specifically:
>
> *) I used to be able to name an AX.25 port nearly anything I wanted.  For 
> instance I have one called "aprs" and used to use one called "opentrac" also. 
> It appears now that the "aprs" port is forced to be called "ax0" in 
> "ifconfig",

In the Xastir AX.25 HOWTO I see this:

    > /usr/sbin/kissattach /dev/ttyUSB0 aprs 44.24.250.250
    AX.25 port aprs bound to device ax0

Which shows that the KISS device is called "aprs", but the actual networking device underneath is "ax0".  I guess the above explains the "problem" I saw sufficiently, so ignore that bit of my previous message.

The queries about "ifup" and routes getting auto-set still stand though.

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