[aprssig] APRSD mangling Mic-E packets

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, David and Ann Fraser wrote:

> There seems to be a problem with this happening here in New Zealand, and
> I remembered discussion about the problem on this mailing list, but I
> couldn't seem to find out what the outcome was in the list archives.
> 
> Is/was there a solution?

Yes, there's a solution.  It involves tweaking one file and
recompiling.  Someone submitted a patch to the aprsd Sourceforge bug
tracker that solves the problem for Mic-E.  The patch allows the
five unprintable characters that Mic-E uses to pass by ok on Linux
AX.25 ports.

I revised the patch slightly to pass all 8-bit characters as it's
possible to send any 8-bit value with user-defined packets.

I sent the modified patch to Chuck.  Hopefully it'll appear in the
CVS sources soon, then perhaps a new release will come out with the
fix.

-- 
Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo dot com
http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
  Lotto:  A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown
Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U.
The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!"