Re: Gracilis card question

[iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)]

> Yeah, a new encapsulation could be added similar to the existing X.25 code,
> but it's a ton of work.  The base OS that cisco uses has conventions that
> are completely different from that of NOS internals.

AX.25 is rather different to X.25, and quite different in some ways to LAP-B.
I found much of this out the hard way using a LAPB stack to build the Linux
AX.25. Just UI frame stuff is easy however.

> Nope, not gonna happen unless a bunch of Ham's at cisco get the energy to
> hack in AX.25 support.  In 3.5 years, I haven't had the desire to do it.
> 486 PC's are dirt cheap. :-)

Compared with a CISCO yes.