Packet Engine Pro Help

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Help Date: 21 June 2004

 

 

New Port Setup Wizard

The New Port Setup wizard can be accessed by selecting the Setup menu and then New TNC choice. You can also access the wizard via the RadioPort Manager screen by selecting New Radio Port from the Edit menu or the New Port Icon from the tool bar.

The Wizard will lead you through a series of screens where you make choices that allow the Wizard to configure your TNC, modem, or sound card (see note #1 below). There should be adequate 'Help' on each Wizard screen (there is no additional help in these 'Help' files).

At the end of the process, the Wizard will have created a 'radioport' to which other programs can link, although you must restart PE Pro for the new radio port to be accessible and appear in the RadioPort Manager screen. The radioport will be represented by a TNC icon in the system tray in the bottom right of your screen. (Dragging the cursor over the icon gives basic information about the radio port.)

You may modify a radio port's properties (or delete) the port by first accessing the Radio Port Manager screen. First select (highlight) the port and then use the Manager's Edit menu or the icons on the tool bar.

 

Note #1:

A. Under External TNCs, there are options for the Kenwood radios with integrated TNCs: D7A, D700, and TS-2000. Note that the D7A and D700 must have the TNC turned on and the TNC must be set for Packet mode, and not for Packet APRS mode.

If you use the TNC in one of those radios, note that the TNC's buffer is very small. This means that MAXFRAME must be set to 1 and PACLEN should be less than 255, otherwise the radio may hang (make those settings changes in the TNC parameters screen). Because of this buffer limitation, exchanges with this TNC will be slower than normal TNCs. Also, try setting the TXDelay to 60 in the port properties: TNC parameters screen.

B. Under Other Devices, there are these two special devices:

Loopback port -  is a dummy port for use in the same computer. It is used for tests and for connections between programs running in the same computer. Say, for instance, that you are running a BBS program. Using the Loopback port, you can connect to that BBS program using AGWterminal running on the same computer. Or you could run AGWTerminal twice and use the Loopback port to connect from one to the other.

AXIP - is used by Digiplex to do AX/UDP. This is an operation to send packet frames over internet. AXIP can also be used for custom TNC drivers. Say for instance that someone has developed a new TNC or soundcard driver, he can use AXIP to pass data to Packet Engine.

 

 

Copyright 2004 SV2AGW George Rossopoulos . All rights reserved.