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VK7AX > LINHAM 03.06.08 15:54l 34 Lines 1072 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : VK7AX-0306DQ
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Subj: Re: BUGs into libax25
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From: VK7AX@VK7AX.#ULV.TAS.AUS.OC
To : LINHAM@WW
From: "Robin Gilks" <g8ecj@gilks.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 18:49:35 +1200 (NZST)
To: "linux-hams" <linux-hams@vger.kernel.org>
> > As I recall, there is a limit to the size of a callsign in the AX.25
> > protocol specification. Will changing it create an incompatibility with
> > standard TNC protocol stacks?
> >
> > Mike, W1NR
> >
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As I recall (from doing several AX25 implementations), the limit is 6
characters, at least one of which MUST be numeric. This would make 6
letters unsupported by the AX25 specification but not necessarily in
practice (but some TNCs etc may reject a connection).
-- Robin Gilks zl3rob/g8ecj --
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