[aprssig] WIDE1-1,SSn-N update
Robert Bruninga bruninga at usna.eduMon Jan 7 14:27:20 UTC 2008
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I was reviewing the fix14439.html web page and noticed it still referred to SS1-1,SSn-N as the recommendation for state or section nets to make these packets traceable. http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/aprs/fix14439.html There is no need to use SS1-1, since WIDE1-1 already exists. So I have changed all references to SS1-1,SSn-N to WIDE1-1,SSn-N. Background: Most digipeaeters can support two types of XXXn-N digipeating. One called UITRACE is fully traceable and the other one called UIFLOOD is not. Originally WIDEn-N used the nontraceable UIFLOOD parameter. This was bad for network management. The New-N paradigm made WIDEn-N fully traceable by swapping WIDEn-N support to the UITRACE parameter. This left the "untraceable" UIFLOOD available for SSn-N routing. But these packets can be marked with the LAST digipeater they used if the UIFLOOD-ID parameter is set. By preceeding any SSn-N path with a WIDE1-1, then the initial digipeater is also marked in the packet. This is why the path of WIDE1-1,SSn-N is recommended for State or ARRL Section nets, because it lets all packets then be identified by where they entered the network and how they arrived. This turns this previously untraceable parameter into a much more manageable path in the modern New-N paradigm network. Bob, WB4APR
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