[aprssig] Re: One last question on digipeater code for TNC-X

[Ian ZL1VFO]

> Message: 14
> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:44:50 -0500
> From: Ron Stordahl <ron.stordahl at digikey.com>
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] One last question on digipeater code for TNC-X

> If one is implementing new digipeater code, wouldn't this be the time to 
> actually enforce a hop limit in the code?  Right now all we have been 
> able to to for the KPC3(+) and UIDIGI-ROM is to shoehorn in some limits 
> which are easily circumvented.  John, I assume you have read 
> http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/aprs/fix14439.html

> Ron, N5IN

> Robert Bruninga wrote:
>> John
~~ Snip~~

Please, don't 'hard-wire' this in the firmware, without the ability
for the local sysop to alter it by a config file or similar

I understand you guys over there have/had major problems with excess
traffic, but over here in New Zealand, one can run the entire country
in one 1200bd channel without problems. The digis are either UI-View
or UI-Digi, or something else that does dupe suppresion, and people
can (and do) run RELAY,WIDE7-7 (Oh, the horror! <g>) without causing
grief. WIDE7-7 is a bit of an overkill, I agree, as I can only think
of a chain of 5 digis that can hear their neighbour, but the traffic
is so light it doesn't cause any harm. At night, when no-one is
driving around, there's sometimes 5 minute gaps of dead airtime, and
I'm sometimes left wondering if my aerial has fallen off or something...

73
Ian ZL1VFO


	
	
		
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