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>3. The AX.25/NET/ROM/ROSE software components</A
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>The AX.25 software is comprised of three components: the kernel source, the
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network configuration tools and the utility programs.</P
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>AX.25 support in the Linux kernel has been fairly stable since the 2.2
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series of kernel versions. This document assumes you are using the
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most recent kernel, which as the time of writing was 2.4.9.</P
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>Software versions listed in this document were the latest at the time
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>3.1. Finding the kernel, tools and utility packages</A
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>3.1.1. The kernel source</A
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>The kernel source can be found at <TT
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>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.9.tar.gz</A
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>3.1.2. The network tools</A
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>The latest release of the standard Linux network tools support
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AX.25 and NET/ROM and can be found at
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>http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/net-tools</A
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>The latest ipchains package can be found at
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>http://netfilter.filewatcher.org/ipchains</A
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>3.1.3. The AX.25 utilities</A
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>The old ax25-utils used with the 2.0 and 2.1 kernels is now obsolete
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and has been replaced with new packages hosted on
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>SourceForge</A
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>The software is distributed as three packages: the AX.25 library, tools, and
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applications. At the time of writing the most recent versions were
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the following:</P
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HREF="ftp://hams.sourceforge.net/pub/hams/ax25/libax25-0.0.7.tar.gz"
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>ftp://hams.sourceforge.net/pub/hams/ax25/libax25-0.0.7.tar.gz</A
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HREF="ftp://hams.sourceforge.net/pub/hams/ax25/ax25-tools-0.0.6.tar.gz"
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>ftp://hams.sourceforge.net/pub/hams/ax25/ax25-tools-0.0.6.tar.gz</A
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>ftp://hams.sourceforge.net/pub/hams/ax25/ax25-apps-0.0.4.tar.gz</A
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>3.1.4. The APRS utilities</A
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>If you want to use APRS you can download <A
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>http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/aprsd/aprsd-2.1.4.tar.gz</A
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>http://www.users.cloud9.net/~alan/ham/aprs/aprsdigi-2.0-pre3.tar.gz</A
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