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ZL3AI > BPQ 04.01.99 07:58l 74 Lines 3010 Bytes #-10156 (0) @ WW
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>From: G4VWL@GB7DEE.#51.GBR.EU
>With the exception of soundcards, BPQ Node software is able to provide
>direct support for ALL of the hardware you listed AND support for every
>KISS TNC on the planet - without searching for firmware modifications.
I only briefly listed what came to mind, which often is very little.
Having investigated further into what drivers are available, my list now is:
BayCom style 300/1200/2400 baud AFSK modem
KISS to another computer or RMNC node
TNC with 6-Pack EPROM
XSCC driver (SCC cards: PA0HZP Opto, PE1PET, DRSI, BayCom Digi & USCC)
USCC driver (all BayCom SCC cards)
PAR96 BayCom 9600 baud parallel port modem
YAM 9600 baud modem
Soundcards
(Ethernet? I haven't read the exact details of this yet)
There are probably more that I am unaware of, as not only do the FlexNet Group
produce drivers, but others around the world are producing them also.
Note the support of low cost 9600 baud devices like the YAM modem, PAR96 modem
and soundcards.
(My list is actually the menu of a FlexNet Install program I am developing - I
have got down the list as far as the YAM modem.)
Has anyone got a list of ALL the drivers that are available?
>On multi-user radio channels, where perhaps only 20% of users may be under
>the control of a DAMA Master, dynamically adjusting parameters with
>everyone politely waiting their turn to be polled may not necessarily be
>the best solution.
Does that imply that there is more than one user-port on the same frequency?
There should only be one user-port (on a BBS or Digi) per frequency. Any more
creates a shambles (we have this locally here, with a netrom network, a BBS and
a lot of users, ALL crammed onto one frequency!) 10 years ago a high speed UHF
backbone with a variety of 2m user ports was proposed and has been generally
enthusiastically ignored (see NZART magazine Break-In, Oct 89, pages 24 & 25).
As far as backing off goes, FlexNet does back off a little, but not
excessively, and on our often heavily loaded notwork it is not really slow
even when faced with intense congestion.
>..... TCPIP users are well-aware of the "back-off until you go
>to sleep" phenomenon.
That sounds like a comment of what JNOS was like some years ago before the
"ax25 maxwait ..." and "tcp maxwait ..." parameters were introduced. It also
used to be the fashion to use datagram mode as compared to virtual circuit
which handles retries and congestion far better. "It seemed like a good idea
at the time" :-)
>Whether or not BPQ Node software has "had it's day" is a matter of opinion.
>Many of us prefer to think that it has stood the test of time.
It is ideal if you want netrom capability.
Yoo hoo! Guru wake-up call! Kantronics TNCs need 6PACK EPROMs! Now!
The TNC2 version is only about 5k so it should only take an hour or two to
get the specs and write the code ;-) Go for it!
73, David.
T4 1.5à24
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