[drats_users] D-RATS & Multi-port TNCs

[Mark Phillips]

Whilst we are on this trail ....


Can we add multi drop KISS (sometimes called BPQKISS or Polled KISS)? In 
theory one can have up to 16 tnc's strung off the same serial port. Any 
of the Z80 based TNC's will support this and so it lends itself readily 
to those embedded machines such as ALIX etc.

Thanks

Mark

On 01/22/2012 03:06 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
>> When I launch D-RATS, the first port states its connected (keys that up)
>> but the second port states it cannot connect.
>
> Yeah, so D-RATS has the ability to tell the TNC which port to use for
> transmitting a packet, but it doesn't have the necessary multiplexing
> logic in place to use two ports on the same serial line independently.
> It was really just intended to allow use of a KPC-9612 where you needed
> to use either the 1200 or 9600 baud port. It's doable, but you are (to
> my knowledge) the only person to ever hit this limitation.
>

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