[Dxspider-support] Compatibility and Isolate

[Dirk Koopman]

On 16 Aug 2001 14:07:42 +0100, g3orh wrote:
> Thanks Dirk,
>                          It looks like with care , the Internet node
> (available via packet connection) could be set up using isolate then which
> would allow our normal cluster interchanges with my next in line (gb7wdx)
> whilst restricting the data from the ARClus to my own specific node (and not
> resending it to WDX and the network causing a loop). That is what I wanted
> to guard against. However this project is some months away due to the
> sysop's impending house move. By then my 1.47a version will probably have
> been upgraded to include the other , enhanced , systems in current and
> onwards CVS's
> 
> Glad to know for most purposes ARClus is compatible (we are only looking for
> spots mainly to overcome frequent breaks in the packet network).  I, and
> probably others too , look forward to the enhanced data in the manual
> covering this topic.
> 

Er...

Why connect to an ARC box at all? All the ARC network spots come into
the EU network via two or three other places (WR3D, PI4TUE-8 to name but
two) and they connect to me. 

Why not internet connect to BAA or MBC or me?

Personally, if I had a 24/7 internet connection (as I do of course) I
would make that the primary link and the radio very much a fallback (or
in my case fallover) link.

If you are using the latest stuff (1.48) then, in principle, you can
connect simultaniously to both BAA and MBC, for instance, and you should
then have fallback links to either of these. You would probably need to
get into some of the complexities of route filtering but, in this case,
it shouldn't be too hard.

Dirk G1TLH