I am working very hard to figure this out - over on the ircddbgateway group I have a thread on this topic.. the product seems to not function - I feel this is a bug. I have collected a ton of data to support (I hope) fixing the functionality of this.?
If you check out that thread I have a lot of details on what is and is not working. I could really use more testing and help - specifically my gateway is still G2 and I need to test if DRATS problems are data issues from G2<-ircDDBgateway (I have one way data issues I feel is a bug)?
I am happy to detail my current progress just email me. I also hope to publish a bug with exact issues to the ircddbgateway team soon I am collecting a lot of data packets and logs to deliver a full story before I yell "bug"
I would really appreciate any of you providing feedback on the ircddbgateway group to get attention to the user community - the more of us that want to see this working the better we get software development (I am an low level cpp guy but dont feel I can attack this bug with my cpp skills)
Ideally yes ircDDBgateway would just "run drats" on the server no extra radio no hotspot this works fine today in simplex hotspot mode. it works one direction in gateway mode so we are almost there.. I will document this fully when it works 100%
?- my dream is that if people are connected to the repeater they just "forward all traffic to the repeater" the repeater has backup internet and power - my users may not.. I also keep files of importance on the drats as well as mentioned I can deliver WX data and other repeater data as binary info to DRATS and all users can access this like a radio file server and information source. additionally I can just link my ratflector local to other ratflectors and we create a real nice network - no need for extra servers hosts or radios?
please join ircddbgateway and jump on the thread - help me identify the bug or holler out support for the functionality so we raise the awareness - dstar and drats is a powerful tool we just need to sharpen it a little.
Kelly K7MHI
