Re: ip in ax25

[Richard <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Jose and Russ

José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:

> 
>     Russ> ax25 packet getting rid of the need to run an ip address
>     Russ> basicaly what i gather is when u use ipax25 u have a unique
>     Russ> number made up from your call and some other num so there is
>     Russ> no need for an ip plus not many people run normal tcp/ip
>     Russ> because of routing problems.first full stop !.not everyone
> 
>           I have heard of the oppossite (axip), which encapsulates
> AX25 stuff into TCP/IP, so you can forward packets over the internet
> to another gateway (let's say). The fact of using ipax25 (of which I
> never hard about and which doesn't appear on any websearch) suggests
> that you got it wrong. Moreover, why use special software when the
> Linux kernel is perfect for routing? What you want to use is a plain
> AX.25 interface, without TCP/IP encapsulated in it. It's the
> old-fashioned way (and you get relays for this and god knows what
> else).


Can we take this off this list please ?  You can send mail to each other
about this subject without me being invloved.

I'll resort to other tactics if you don't.

Thanks

-- 
Richard
Sheffield UK

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