I have set up two ax.25 systems to play with and learn packet radio. There is no packet radio activity here at all - apart from some APRS - so my setup is for self-education purposes only.
System 1: TS-2000 / Kubuntu AMD64 + Direwolf
System 2: Baofeng UV5R / Raspberry Pi4 + Direwolf
Both systems are set up the same with a basic ax.25 stack and the latest version of LinPac, compiled locally. I want to turn system 2 into a full blown node/BBS eventually, but for now it only has LinPac installed.
For system 1 I use SSID-10 in the axports config file.
For system 2 I use SSID-1 in the axports config file.
When setting up Direwolf I read somewhere that the call used in the config file shouldn't have the same SSID as the one used elsewhere, e.g. in axports, so in my Direwolf.conf the call sign BX2ABT without an SSID.
But LinPac has it's own configuration files and in init.mac you can basically use any call sign and SSID you which. But I find this confusing, because I know system 2 is BX2ABT-1, but I don't know the users on that system, and if I don't setup a user called BX2ABT-1 in my LinPac init.mac file I can never reach that system by using :c BX2ABT-1.
Then thinking ahead: what if I want to add a mailbox, BBS, etc. Do these also come with their own configurations and choice of SSID?
So my question is: what is a good strategy to choose SSIDs without running into trouble and without confusing anyone? Cheers,
Hans
BX2ABT
