[Dxspider-support] Tnos..

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 09:46:04PM -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 16:55 -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > I suspect that it would be pretty easy to allow TNOS user access by
> > adding a 'telnet linuxip 7300' command alias to TNOS, where "linuxip" is
> > the IP address of the Linux side of the TNOS host.  Many *NOS nodes do
> > this already to connect to a cluster node running on another host. 
> > Another node could also connect that way via a /spider/connect script,  
> 
> Well one of the initial tests that are done when setting up DXSpider is
> to see if you can telnet to your localhost at the port number that you
> are going to use.  In my case I am dealing with here, that is not even
> possible without installing a few of the utilties..

A telnet client should be installed by default when you installed your
Linux distribution.  It is an essential part of networking, not part of 
ax.25.  You don't need a telnet server, since telnetting to the DX 
spider port will start client.pl.  This should work without any 
reference to ax.25 at all.  For a radio connection, normally one uses 
the ax25 module and ax25d.conf, but I think this will work with TNOS as 
I described.

> > 
> > For initiating an RF connection to another node I think a connect script 
> > could do the same thing--connect from the Linux side running Spider to 
> > TNOS and from there to the other node.
> > 
> > Now that I am thinking about it, I may look into this myself, as I never
> > have been that pleased with the Linux node application.
> > 
> > Is TNOS still supported?  I recall that Brian Lantz had some health 
> > difficulties several years ago and had assumed a low profile.  There has 
> > been some recent work on JNOS recently.
> 
> Tnos doesn't have any support now. Its just the users themselves
> chatting among themselves that is keeping it going. Jnos however has a
> much more active and supportive group.
> 
> > 
> > Bob, N7XY
> > 
> > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 11:15:29PM +0000, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> > > I am afraid I cannot help, maybe someone else on here can?
> > > 
> > > Dirk
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 18:59 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
> > > > Do you have any examples of such a setup?? Surely, there is someone in
> > > > this world that has DXSpider running without the utils and people are able
> > > > to telnet into the cluster??
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 11:23 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
> > > > > > Can DXSpider be set up on a machine that doesn't have ax25 utils?
> > > > > > In other words, a machine with only TNOS installed.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Does tnos allowing incoming tcp connections and can it initiate out
> > > > > going ones (ie does it act as a telnet->radio gateway). If the answer is
> > > > > yes, then it will all work. One way or another. You just have to get the
> > > > > lineendings right.
> > > 
> > 
> 
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