MVFMA FBB/Linux Configuration

Here are the two F6FBB/Linux configuration files that interact with the Linux kernel AX.25 services to hook the BBS to the radio ports.

As described on the Linux AX.25 Configuration page, the MVFMA system has two radio ports: 1200 baud using a DRSI card and the z8530 driver, and 19.2kb using the Ottawa PI card. There is also a netrom port listening for W8APR-0:MVFMA that's intended to provide access to the BBS via netrom.

Here is the beginning of the "init.srv" file that establishes W8APR-0 as the BBS callsign/SSID. (I've trimmed the rest of the file, as it's not relevant to the AX.25 stuff). 

# FBB7.00
#
# Set-up file
#
#
# Callsign of BBS
W8APR.#DAY.OH.USA.NOAM
#
# SSID of BBS
0
#

And, here's port.sys which defines the AX.25 ports on which FBB will listen. Note that the port is listed; this is the interface to the netrom system. 

# FBB7.00
#
#
#Ports TNCs
 1     3
#
# Interface 9 = LINUX
#
#Com Interface Adress (Hex) Baud
 1   9         ****          9600
#
# MultCh  : Name of the Linux port taken from /etc/ax25/axports
# Maxframe: The maximum nb of frames the TNC will send at a time.
# NbFwd   : Number of channels for OUTGOING forward at same time.
# MxBloc  : Size of forward-block in kb.
#
# M/P-Fwd : Minute of the hour for start of forward, and period
#           (how many minutes between each forward-start).
# Mode    : One of these:
#           B : BBS-mode.
#           G : "Guest"-mode.
#           U : Normal-mode.
# Type host-mode, one of these:
#           D : WA8DED
#           K : KAM hostmode.
#           M : Telephone-modem.
#           P : PK-232
#           Q : BPQ v 4.x
#           X : LINUX kernel interface
# Addition: One of these letters can be used too:
#           L : Send unproto beacon after each arriving mail.
#           Y : Yapp allowed on this QRG.
#           W : Gateway allowed TO this QRG.
#           R : Read-Only acces.
# Freq.   : Text to describe this port (max 9 characters, no space)
# Same number of lines as number of TNCs.
#
#TNC NbCh Com MultCh Pacln Maxfr NbFwd MxBloc M/P-Fwd Mode  Freq
 0   0    0   0      0     0     0     0      00/01   ----  File-fwd.
 1   8    1   scc0    250   3     1     10     30/60   UXYWL 145.61 
 2   8    1   pi0a    250   4     1     10     30/60   UXYWL 430.95 
 3   8    1   netbbs  236   3     1     10     30/60   UXYWL NetROM
#
# End of file.
#

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