[drats_users] Using D-Rats on a reflector

[Dan Smith]

> Using callsign routing should work fine with D-RATS but NOT in 
> combination with a Reflector link.  Also I'm not sure if the rig sends 
> the "RPT?" and "UR?" indications back to D-RATS, indicating "no you 
> didn't route" or "yes you did route"... if that *is* available out the 
> serial port, that would be pretty helpful for Dan... he could watch for 
> that indication, in a special "callsign routed" mode.  But it'd have to 
> be a user-controlled thing, since Reflectors and Dplus Gateway to 
> Gateway links do NOT provide these indications.  (You always get "RPT?" 
> back.)

The repeater status messages (UR?, RPT?, etc... I don't know what else 
to call them) do *not* make it through the serial port.

It sounds to me like reflector data usage is going to be pretty messy 
all around.  I don't think that multicast is as bad as you might think 
because of the way I implement it.  The person controlling the session 
controls who speaks and when.  There's no scenario where the client in a 
multicast session would say "I haven't heard anything in a while, I 
better send a NAK".  If the header/packet/whatever loss is intermittent, 
then D-RATS could still recover the next time it makes a call for reports.

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