[aprssig] Different UI-Path's etc, (was RE: Time to UPGRADE obsolete DIGIS!)

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, John Ronan wrote:

> On 9 Jun 2008, at 10:08, Dave Baxter wrote:
> 
> > Currently (so I believe) the "recommended" UK path setting is
> > "RELAY,TRACEn-N", functionally (I believe) the same as (or very  
> > similar
> > to) "WIDE1-1,WIDEn-N" (someone tell me different if need be)

> Functionally quite similar, but, things can go a bit nuts when some  
> joker puts in RELAY, RELAY, RELAY ;)

As I recall we made the switch from RELAY to WIDE1-1 here in NA
because the digi's could only do dupe checking on the WIDEn-N
portion, but not the RELAY.  By switching to WIDE1-1 we got a very
definite gain in operation.


> If the UK is hell bent on having TRACE traceable fine, but a question  
> that could be posed what would be the problem with having WIDE  
> traceable as well?

Yea, like we do.  Then we dropped TRACEn-N because it did the same
exact thing.  We dropped WIDE/TRACE/TRACEn-N/RELAY.  Our busy
network here in the greater Seattle area got a whole lot less busy
plus people could send messages to each other again.  The network
became a WHOLE LOT more reliable.


> Which is bogus, the WIDEn-n paradigm is fully traceable, thats the  
> whole point.

Yep, but I'm not sure it's an obvious next step when you're looking
at things like KPC-3+ manuals.  It took people here a while to come
up with it.


> I got booted from a list already (I forget which) for suggesting (in  
> exasperation it has to be said) that traceable WIDEn-n had to be more  
> efficient than traceable TRACEn-n, as there was one less character in  
> WIDE.

Because you _know_ how AX.25 headers are implemented, that's pretty
funny!

The comment is correct for APRS-IS feeds though, it _is_ more
efficient there...

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