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Flexnet Institutional Web Site
This is the Homepage
of the FlexNet Group in Darmstadt, Germany.We are a losely knit
group of people who spend their time in developing software for
Amateur Packet-Radio purposes. The main project presently is the
PC/FlexNet package written by Gunter Jost, DK7WJ. We offer selected
parts of the whole software package for direct download.
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Project
The possibilities of
this software are widened continuously. In many points, it outbids
everything until now. Especially the multi-protocol-ability and
the compatibility to all current AX.25-protocols, this new software
lifts up of the many islands - and special-solutions radio for packed
radio.
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Some
information about using TCP/IP with Flexnet
The goals and outcome
of a project to optimize TCP/IP transport over the FlexNet AX.25
network is described. A number of optimizations, and their implementations,
are described and discussed. These include header compression, resend
minimization, packet age tracking and ACK consolidation, as well
as platform considerations and potential uses.
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Equipment for a PC/FlexNet-Digi
Typical PC/Flexnet-Digi
site consist of a PC with multi serial ports connected via serial
cables to tnc's running a special KISS EPROM called 6pack. FlexNet
is a polling system with a configuration rule that must be followed
to insure proper operation.
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Flexnet in Operation
In the boxes
below is the character you would type after the => prompt from
the FlexNet node. Please "CLICK" on the character in the
box to simulate entering the character and hitting a <CR>
carriage return.
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Hardware
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Pc/6Pack
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