[OZAPRS] alternative to KA9Q NOS ?

Glen English VK1XX glenlist at pacificmedia.com.au
Wed Nov 7 14:52:03 AEDT 2018


bring back Vancouver V2, compressed headers ! where is Mr Lockhart when 
we need him ?


On 7/11/2018 2:43 PM, Carlos wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> I was reading a bit this morning and I understand that transporting
> TCP/IP traffic over AX.25 might not be a wise idea due to the small
> frame count.
>
> I don't understand these things well, but with a radio capable of 64
> kbps (or more) constrained by a protocol with a short frame length and
> count (the number of unconfirmed packets that can exist at a give
> time), the transmissions will be constantly halted waiting for
> acknowledgements ???
>
>
> Have you guys explored the use of SLIP/PP over radio ?
>
> 73,
> Carlos VK1EA
>
>
> On 11/7/18, Thomas Karpiniec <tk at 1.21jiggawatts.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 6 Nov 2018, at 11:41 PM, Cary Dreelan wrote:
>>> You’ll find that your Linux distribution has compiled some defaults that
>>> may not be suitable to this application, but they are *not* hard coded.
>>>
>>> if you run ‘sysctl -a’ you’ll find more parameters that can be tweaked
>>> in realtime than you’ll want to ever know about.
>> Oh definitely - I probably gave the wrong impression. There's lots of sysctl
>> stuff that vastly improves matters, particularly concerning ARP, and it's
>> usable. However there was at least one fundamental constant where optimising
>> it for packet required a kernel rebuild. I've forgotten what precisely it
>> was but I could do a deeper search later if anyone particularly wanted to
>> know.
>>
>> Cheers & 73
>>
>> Tom VK7NTK
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