[Dxspider-support] BPQ32_409r_Beta_20050914 is now availablefortesting

[Eddie Olson]

Xrouter can run in a dos window on a windows computer.
All this requires is another network card.
I dont run mine this way but a lot do.

73 Eddie ZL2AQY

zl2aqy.ath.cx 9000

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Stordahl" <ron.stordahl at digikey.com>
To: "The DXSpider Support list" <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 1:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] BPQ32_409r_Beta_20050914 is now 
availablefortesting


> Dirk Koopman wrote:
>> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 18:31 -0400, t3 wrote:
>>
>>> Oh i see..
>>> the cluster starts the connection to the AGWPE and not the other way 
>>> around.
>>>
>>> why i asked is cause im in a very low location, and i can get a high 
>>> location with a borrowed internet connection
>>> for the radio or AX25 connection, not a full cluster (like i had before 
>>> there) i was hoping that AGWPE would connect
>>> back to the cluster providing  AX25 connection for the cluster
>>>
>>
>> Ah, I didn't completely explain.
>> The connection from DXSpider->AGWPE is *always* in that direction. What
>> I didn't say is this has nothing to do with users or the node
>> connections. These ax25 connections are transported over the
>> DXSpider->AGWPE link. Only one link is made, on start up, and all the
>> ax25 conversations, in both directions, are carried on that link.
>>
>> Also, I should also mention Xrouter again as it MS-DOS PC based node
>> software. This will do what you want and there are people on here that
>> use it. In essence, you can set one of these up somewhere, with a NIC,
>> and connect to or from it via TCP/IP. It handles all the things that BPQ
>> does as well as a few more. It has a load of extra features that some
>> people like.
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>>
> As to XRouter, I have tried it and it good, but it would have required me 
> to have two PC's, one Windows and one DOS at my cluster site.  I didn't 
> care to do that when I could limit myself to a single PC if I would use 
> BPQ32.  With the addition of AGW interfaces to BPQ32 others may reach the 
> same conclusion.
>
> Ron, N5IN
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