Subject: AX.25 and SLS 1.05 WARNING
From: Alan Cox <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 18:14:12 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

This is an important announcment and warning for people with SLS 1.05 and
planning on using the included AX.25 code. This isn't a knock at SLS
although if someone had checked with me before releasing the AX.25 code
as they did it wouldn't have happened.

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    ON NO ACCOUNT USE THE AX.25 006 RELEASE IN THE REAL WORLD OR ON AIR
    
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The AX25.006 release will disrupt other network traffic, crash your machine
and potentially corrupt the disk as it scribbles on other people's memory
with gay abandon. It has race conditions that can cause it to ouput frames
with no callsign ID. To put this in perspective AX.25 006 was an early 
development release that was only used on a quiet radio channel under
controlled conditions. The first 'safe(ish)' AX.25 release is AX.25 011. The
current for 1.0.* kernels is AX25.012. Even these are far from debugged
ALPHA code.

The current (non modules based) AX25.012 code is on sunacm.swan.ac.uk in
/pub/Linux/Radio. If someone does do a nice modular version of this for
SLS 1.05 then while I can't support it I'd like to add it to the archive.

Alan
GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU
[email-masked]
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