Re: AX.25 Linux Packet Forwarding

["Paul R. Tagliamonte" <paultag@gmail.com>]

Thank you Dennis and David!

I was able to get the right parts moving after picking up the phrase
"Digipeating" - I have it all working, thank you very much for your
help!

Paul K3XEC


On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 8:18 PM Paul R. Tagliamonte <paultag@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, Linux HAMs,
>
> I'm just getting into AX.25, and I've not been able to find the right
> set of keywords to search for. I've only started learning about this
> two days ago, so pointing me to the right docs would be very welcome
> and helpful in this case.
>
> I've got a base station and a Kenwood handheld that I've got working
> with AX.25. I have a BBS I can hit via my base station, but not my
> handheld.
>
> I'd like to set up my Linux box attached to my base station to forward
> AX.25 traffic on-frequency as a relay.
>
> HT: "K3XEC-1" (Kenwood)
> Base Station: "MYRELAY" (Yaesu)
> Remote Station: "MYBBS"
>
> Assuming MYRELAY and MYBBS are valid callsigns / stations -- I'm going
> to use these so that we don't get confused by the same callsign but
> different SSIDs.
>
> I'd like to be able to (from my Laptop and Kenwood) do (as K3XEC-1):
>
> $ axcall MYBBS via MYRELAY
>
> which would result in MYRELAY sending traffic K3XEC-2>MYBBS, and
> relaying traffic back to K3XEC-2 (or something) back via
> MYRELAY>K3XEC-1 (or however it should be properly translated - still
> not comfortable with the AX.25 framing yet or if there's a convention
> there), and have my base-station relay traffic to and from.
>
> Is there something like "net.ipv4.ip_forward" but for AX.25 that would
> allow me to do this? Or a daemon or something? I'd love to allow
> anyone else nearby to use my base station, so filtering by callsign is
> not required here either.
>
> I /think/ I subscribed, but please do keep me on CC in the event I fudged up.
>
>   Paul K3XEC
>
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> :wq



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