OpenBCM V1.13 (Linux)

Packet Radio Mailbox

DB0FHN

[JN59NK Nuernberg]

 Login: GUEST





  
DG4FDI > BPQ      24.01.99 16:46l 80 Lines 2071 Bytes #-10132 (0) @ WW
BID : O19DB0ZDF01H
Read: DH5CQ DH6BB SP6VXT DB1RAS GUEST
Subj: Re: BPQ or Flexnet?
Path: DB0AAB<DB0ZKA<DB0ABH<DB0SRS<DB0ZDF
Sent: 990124/1344z @:DB0ZDF.#RPL.DEU.EU [ZDF Mainz JN49CX OP:DF4WJ] BCM1.40j
From: DG4FDI @ DB0ZDF.#RPL.DEU.EU  (Thomas)
To:   BPQ @ WW


Hello dr Saku, OK1KH

These lines describe how I make a DOS pc with Flexnet and a Linux pc talking
AX25 to each other.

I do not use Win95 for networking, because Linux does this job much better.

The DOS pc is an old 386/25Mhz,2MB (1MB for RAMDRIVE),
floppy disk (no hard drive).
The pc contains a Baycom USCC-Card driven by PC-Flexnet and
a noname ethernet card.
The dos  ethernet packet driver needs to be set in mode 6.
A baudrate setting for the bpqether port is not required.

This file loads the Flexnet drivers from dos.

@echo off

lh flexnet 40
if errorlevel 1 goto end

lh flexdigi

rem uscc card with Port address , Irq  , number of radio Channels (ports)
lh uscc /p=0x210 /i=5 /c=4

rem ethernet packet driver
lh pnppd 0x65 10 0x300

rem bpqether
pktmode 0x65 6
lh ether /i=0x65 /a=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

flex

:end

bct.exe


Note that BPQ ethernet driver ETHER.EXE for dos has to be used
not ETHER32.EXE for Win95. Their meaning is completely different.

The Linux box is a Pentium II with a WD8390 ethernet card.
Kernel version is 2.0.36 with ax25 support.
The modules wd , 8390 and bpqether are compiled as modules and loaded
with insmod.

# /etc/ax25/axports
#
flx   DG4FDI-10  38400  256  7  to Flexnet Radio Front End
#

The next lines show how I open the bpq0 interface. The corresponding eth0
interface must be opened before bpq0 !
For TCP/IP I use mode VC with MTU 1015 and DG2FEF's experimental VJ
compression for TCP frames over AX25.
If you use mode data only, use mtu 256 ( or the ax25rtd deamon).


ifconfig  bpq0  44.130.52.64  hw ax25 dg4fdi-10  mtu 1015  netmask 255.0.0.0
route add -net  44.0.0.0      netmask 255.0.0.0  bpq0

echo     0 > /proc/sys/net/ax25/bpq0/backoff_type
echo     1 > /proc/sys/net/ax25/bpq0/ip_default_mode
echo     7 > /proc/sys/net/ax25/bpq0/standard_window_size
echo    60 > /proc/sys/net/ax25/bpq0/t1_timeout
echo     1 > /proc/sys/net/ax25/bpq0/t2_timeout
echo  9000 > /proc/sys/net/ax25/bpq0/idle_timeout
    


73 de Thomas
DG4FDI@DB0ZDF.#RPL.DEU.EU




Read previous mail | Read next mail


 21.10.2026 18:08:54lGo back Go up