[OZAPRS] dual port tnc

Ray Wells vk2tv at exemail.com.au
Mon Nov 24 15:28:55 EST 2008


Jim Tittsler wrote:
> On Nov 24, 2008, at 15:25, Ben Lindner wrote:
>> Has anyone ever setup 2 radios with a Kantronics 9612+.
>
> Yes, back in the BBS/TNOS era.
>
> The 9612 implements the BPQ KISS extension that allows encoding the 
> port number in the high nibble of the control byte.  The Linux kernel 
> didn't directly support this extension, but there was an 'mkiss' 
> (multidrop kiss) tool that could merge multiple psuedo TTYs into a 
> single physical serial TNC connection.
>
>
>
>
That's still an option in Linux today.

Ray vk2tv

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