Download Xrouter v1.76c 30/7/02 (522,885 bytes)
Download Xrouter v1.72 17/11/01 (392,525 bytes)
This is a robust AX25/IP packet router for DOS, with the following
features, intended as an easy replacement for
BPQ's SWITCH program. It can be used with KISS and BPQKISS tncs, Ethernet
cards, YAM modems, Telephone modems, Cable modems and various SCC cards
such as Baycom USCC, RLC100, DRSI,
PC100/120 and PA0HZP. It will also interface to any driver which uses the
BPQ "EXTERNAL" interface, such as various Baycom modem drivers. Although
intended as a foreground DOS program, Xrouter will run within Desqview or
in a Windows95/98 DOS window.
(Recent Changes)
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G8PZT BBS is a multi-user multi-area AX25/IP/PSTN bulletin board for DOS, which has been in constant service and development since 1991. It is compact, fast, reliable, and has many unique features which make it very popular with users.
PZTBBS uses either BPQCODE.EXE or native-mode TNCs to interface to the AX25 world (host-mode TNC's are not supported). TCP/IP operations can use Ethernet, SLIP or BPQ. The BBS can also be operated via an RS232 link or a telephone modem. Mail can be exchanged using MBL or FBB forwarding, SMTP, TELNET or POP3, files via FTP, YAPP or XMODEM.
The picture shows the BBS being operated over a wire link using a dumb terminal program (Telix). (Recent changes)
PEARL is an automated user client designed specifically for use with PZT BBS, but it will also work with FBB systems. It allows the user to browse the messages offline, compose messages and exchange mail and files automatically with the BBS. It will work with a TNC, a wire link, BPQ node, or a telephone modem. (Recent changes)
The versions of BPQKISS dated Feb 91 and Jan 92 were not capable of simultaneous transmission and reception. To demonstrate this, simply link the TX and RX audio on your TNC's AF socket (pins 1 and 4 on a Tiny2), and send a few frames. You will see the PTT and DCD leds light up, but you won't see any received frames. This causes serious performance problems on full duplex links - basically you're wasting your time using full duplex because the TNC ignores anything received while it is transmitting!
I have created patched versions of the eproms which fix this problem, and you can download the Feb 91 version by clicking the above link. It is a binary image, which you must modify (if necessary) in the usual way to include your CWID and channel number.
Providing you are already using the Feb91 version of BPQKISS, and the callsign and channel number are unchanged, you can burn the new image into an already-programmed EPROM without erasing it. If you are using the Jan 92 version, or you have changed the CWID or channel number, you will have to burn a new eprom instead.