Connecting to other Clusters

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Connecting to other Clusters

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Dirk Koopman G1TLH

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Connecting to other Clusters

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Dirk Koopman G1TLH

- - -Last modified: Mon Dec 14 00:29:00 GMT 1998 + + +Last modified: Thu Dec 17 00:06:40 GMT 1998

At the moment, anybody can connect inwards at any time from outside, either by ax25 or by telnet (assuming you have followed the instructions in installation instructions. However, in order to connect outwards, you will need to create connect scripts. - +

Connect scripts live in the /spider/connect directory and are simple ascii scripts that are written using a normal editor. There are a couple of examples in the issue directory. - +

Here are a couple of basic types, first a telnet connection:-

     timeout 15
@@ -28,7 +35,7 @@ Last modified: Mon Dec 14 00:29:00 GMT 1998
     connect telnet dirkl.tobit.co.uk
     'login' 'gb7djk'
     'word' 'gb7djk'
-    client /usr/bin/perl /spider/perl/client.pl gb7djk-1 telnet
+    client gb7djk-1 telnet

and an ax25 example:-

@@ -40,17 +47,17 @@ Last modified: Mon Dec 14 00:29:00 GMT 1998
     'Connect' 'c np7'
     'Connect' 'c gb7dxm'
     'Connect' ''
-    client /usr/bin/perl /spider/perl/client.pl gb7dxm ax25
+    client gb7dxm ax25

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A connection is started manually by typing in connect on a sysop enabled client.pl session. For example:-

     G1TLH de GB7DJK 13-Dec-1998 2041Z > connect gb7djk-1
     connection to GB7DJK-1 started
     G1TLH de GB7DJK 13-Dec-1998 2043Z > 
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- + +

You can watch the progress of the connection (if you have the standard debugging enabled) on the cluster.pl screen and you should see something like this:-

@@ -81,8 +88,8 @@ Last modified: Mon Dec 14 00:29:00 GMT 1998
     <- D GB7DJK-1 PC38^GB7DJK-1^~
     <- D GB7DJK-1 PC18^ 1 nodes, 0 local / 1 total users  Max users 0  Uptime 0 00:00^5447^~
     etc
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The connect scripts consist of lines which start with the following keywords or symbols:-

# All lines starting with a # are ignored, as are wholly blank lines. @@ -104,10 +111,19 @@ Last modified: Mon Dec 14 00:29:00 GMT 1998
When the left hand string has found what it is looking (if it is) then the right hand string is sent to the connection.
This process is repeated for every line of chat script. -
client starts the client program and should be exactly as you would want it with an incoming - connection. +
client starts the connection, put the arguments you would want here if you were + starting the client program manually. You only need this if the script has a different name to + the callsign you are trying to connect to (i.e. you have a script called other which actually + connects to GB7DJK-1 [instead of a script called gb7djk-1]).

$Id$

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