<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Making AX.25/NET/ROM/ROSE calls</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.63 "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux Amateur Radio AX.25 HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Configuring a ROSE port" HREF="x1374.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Configuring Linux to accept Packet connections" HREF="x1474.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Linux Amateur Radio AX.25 HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x1374.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x1474.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1449" >11. Making AX.25/NET/ROM/ROSE calls</A ></H1 ><P >Now that you have all of your AX.25, NET/ROM and ROSE interfaces configured and active, you should be able to make test calls.</P ><P >The AX.25 Utilities package includes a program called `<EM >call</EM >' which is a split screen terminal program for AX.25, NET/ROM and ROSE.</P ><P >A simple AX.25 call would look like:</P ><P ><TABLE BORDER="1" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >/usr/bin/call radio VK2DAY via VK2SUT</PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></P ><P >A simple NET/ROM call to a node with an alias of <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >SUNBBS</TT > would look like:</P ><P ><TABLE BORDER="1" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >/usr/bin/call netrom SUNBBS</PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></P ><P >A simple ROSE call to <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >HEARD</TT > at node <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >5050882960</TT > would look like:</P ><P ><TABLE BORDER="1" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >/usr/bin/call rose HEARD 5050882960</PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></P ><P >Note: you must tell <EM >call</EM > which port you wish to make the call on, as the same destination node might be reachable on any of the ports you have configured.</P ><P >The <EM >call</EM > program is a line mode terminal program for making AX.25 calls. It recognizes lines that start with `<TT CLASS="LITERAL" >˜</TT >' as command lines. The `<TT CLASS="LITERAL" >˜.</TT >' command will close the connection.</P ><P >Please refer to the man page in <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >/usr/man</TT > for more information.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x1374.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x1474.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Configuring a ROSE port</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Configuring Linux to accept Packet connections</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >