The AX25 Utilities

What are they? Why use them?

The AX25-Utilities is a collection of programs and software that makes running packet radio on Linux machines possible. When used in conjunction with a BBS system, such as F6FBBS among others, the utilities are often considered as a viable alternative to NOS systems, such as JNOS, and TNOS, etc.

What makes the AX25-Utilities approach so attractive, is that the software fits very comfortably into the Linux operating system, a server oriented, multi-tasking environment. Thus, the users have full and immediate use of all the services offered by the OS. (Almost all the utilities are run, or can be run, as daemons in the background...)

The AX25-Utilities also support all the internet services for TCP/IP, just as the Linux operating system does, since they are closely tied to the operating system. So an AX25 port may be converted to TCP/IP with just one command. (Netrom and Rose are also supported, Rose is not used here as yet... )

While the sysop here has not 'mastered' these utilities by any means, he has found them to be quite configurable and very 'interesting' to work with!

NOTE: The present configuration should be considered, at best, a prototype, and in a state of on-going development, a work-in-progress.

To learn more about how to get your packet radio station on the air using the AX25 Utilities, see the AX25 Utilities index page.

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(Courtesy KBNorton Computer Services)