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Whole document tree 3. The AX.25/NET/ROM/ROSE software componentsThe AX.25 software is comprised of three components: the kernel source, the network configuration tools and the utility programs. AX.25 support in the Linux kernel has been fairly stable since the 2.2 series of kernel versions. This document assumes you are using the most recent kernel, which as the time of writing was 2.4.9.
3.1. Finding the kernel, tools and utility packages3.1.1. The kernel sourceThe kernel source can be found at www.kernel.org and ftp.kernel.org. For the 2.4.9 kernel it would be downloaded from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.9.tar.gz. 3.1.2. The network toolsThe latest release of the standard Linux network tools support AX.25 and NET/ROM and can be found at http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/net-tools. The latest ipchains package can be found at http://netfilter.filewatcher.org/ipchains.
3.1.3. The AX.25 utilitiesThe old ax25-utils used with the 2.0 and 2.1 kernels is now obsolete and has been replaced with new packages hosted on SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/hams. The software is distributed as three packages: the AX.25 library, tools, and applications. At the time of writing the most recent versions were the following: 3.1.4. The APRS utilitiesIf you want to use APRS you can download aprsd and aprsdigi: |