I don't know if you got a response on this or not but I will put my 2 cents in...
These were my observations on it and haven't done this in a while. This is something I also want to do and it would be the defining factor of moving the gateway that I'm an admin/co-owner (KC9SJY) of over to ircDDB instead of using G2/DPLUS with Icom hardware. It would eliminate having some hardware device in between the repeater and the user for D-RATS. Though, I would still have to convert all scripts with some bash/linux magic (predominately to use textransmit) from those that I currently possess many DPLUS scripts to get WX info off my station nearby wjocj work well with this current setup...
The way that I understand this is done and tested with a simplex hotspot is to turn on D-RATS server by using ircddbgateway.
Then, it should create a port that you can tell D-RATS as a radio to connect as localhost and then that port number.
My observations (may not be entirely correctly) were that with a station on RF could see the transmissions from the hotspot's D-RATS client connected to this port. Any activity from a gateway would be receiviable here.
The hotspot's client (server) doesn't see anything but can transmit it and goes out RF for the client to see. I don't remember but not really sure any gateway activity is received by a remote client or not.RATS activity.
What I seem to remember is that G4KLX posted a while ago that probably exists currently in the current versionis a way that low speed data through ircDDB can be debugged but don't remember how that was done. If he would be provide some data and have some time to go over it, programming could be done to make this function work.
73
Josh, AB9FT
