Direwolf and Jnos (review)

In the previous post about Direwolf and jnos i use Direwolf-1.3 and does not know about the SERIALKISS port.
John WQ6N point it out to me… Tnx John WQ6N. Nice one.
Read the previous post.
So maybe I wrote that script for nothing. This is working pretty simple 🙂

In Direwolf 1.5-beta is it possible to use SERIALKISS to connect com to com.
I have try to use a PTY pair created with socat.

# Create pty pair
socat -d -d -ly PTY,link=/dev/ttyq1 PTY,link=/dev/ptyq1 &
sleep 2
# Start Direwolf
direwolf -d kn -c /direwolf/direwolf.conf &> /var/log/direwolf.log >/dev/tty3 &
sleep 2

Direwolf.conf
SERIALKISS  /dev/ttyq1 19200

# Jnos autoexec.nos
attach asy ptyq1 - ax25 ax0 4096 256 19200

Fireup Jnos
./jnos -C -g2 -u3 -f nos.cfg -i

I use conspy to look at the output of Direwolf. apt-get install conspy
Use it just like this “conspy 3” The number 3 stands for the tty were Direwolf is running on /dev/tty3.
Hit the escape button a couple of times to exit.

Here is the output of Direwolf

>>> Data frame to KISS client application, port 0, total length = 82
  000:  c0 00 92 88 40 40 40 40 e0 9c 98 70 b4 b4 8a 60  ....@@@@...p...`
  010:  ae 92 88 8a 62 40 63 03 f0 43 6f 6e 6e 65 63 74  ....b@c..Connect
  020:  20 4e 4c 36 5a 5a 45 20 66 6f 72 20 74 68 65 20   PD2LT-6 for the
  030:  4a 4e 4f 53 20 43 6f 6e 76 65 72 73 20 28 6c 69  JNOS Convers (li
  040:  6e 6b 65 64 20 77 69 74 68 20 6f 74 68 65 72 73  nked with others
  050:  29 c0

Ok that is working quit well.
I start Direwolf with the option “-d kn” So you can look at the kiss communication between Direwolf and Jnos.

Some text out of the User-Guide.pdf.
“Up to 3 concurrent TCP KISS client applications are allowed at the same time.
You can raise this limit by increasing the value of MAX_NET_CLIENTS, in source file kissnet.c and recompiling.”

Whoooo thats nice up to 3 (and more) applications can connect to Direwolf on the KISSPORT.
And there is also the AGW and the SERIALKISS port. Men where do I start.

John WQ6N

John WQ6N has found something that is useful. He use a Legacy BSD pseudo pair.
There are no Legacy BSD pseudo pairs in Linux any more. But it is possible to create some.

/etc/default/grub:
Change line from:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
to:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="pty.legacy_count=10"
(Where 10 is the number of pty legacy devices you require.)
This created 10 ptypX/ttypX terminal pairs.

After editing the grub file run the command “update-grub” and reboot.

So now it`s time to set Direwolf and Jnos to use the pty Legacy devices.

The Direwolf SERIALKISS 
SERIALKISS /dev/ptyp0 19200

The associated JNOS2 attach line:
attach asy ttyp0 - ax25 hfgw 4096 256 19200

Jnos link local

Setup a local link in jnos to uronode.

root@linux:/etc/ax25# cat axports
# /etc/ax25/axports
#
# The format of this file is:
#
# name  callsign        speed   paclen  window  description
# ----- -----------     ------- ------- ------- ---------------------------
ax6     PD2LT-7         19200   256     2       Link local Jnos pd2lt

root@linux:/etc/ax25# cat nrbroadcast
# /etc/ax25/nrbroadcast
#
# The format of this file is:
#
# ax25_name min_obs def_qual worst_qual verbose
#
ax6     5       203     192     1

# create socat device (jnos-uro)
socat -d -d -ly PTY,link=/dev/ttyq4 PTY,link=/dev/ptyq4 &
sleep 2
kissattach -m 256 /dev/ptyq4 ax6 44.137.31.73
ifconfig ax6 44.137.31.73 netmask 255.255.255.224 up
sleep 1

Autoexec.nos

attach asy ttyq4 - ax25 lap 4096 256 19200
ifconfig lap description "Link uronode"
#
ifconfig lap ax25 maxframe 2
ifconfig lap ax25 paclen 256
#ifconfig lap ipadd 44.137.31.81
#
at 15 "mbox kick pi8lap+"
#
arp eaves lap on
arp poll lap on

ip hp lap on
mbox mport lap on

# pi1lap
ax25 bc lap on
ax25 heard lap
ax25 hport lap on
ax25 bcport lap on

netrom  interface       lap 203 201
netrom  bcpoll          lap
netrom  bcnodes         lap
inp     ifaces          lap

trace lap 0111