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24 January 2023

  • 18:4918:49, 24 January 2023 diff hist +2,393 N DXSpider FAQCreated page with "#Installation ##Where do I get DXSpider? ##How do I use the patches? ##If I use a tarball to overwrite my installation, what happens to my configuration? ##Installation#I am running RedHat 5.2 and I am getting strange errors, what is wrong?|I am running RedHat 5.2 and I am getting st..." current
  • 18:4918:49, 24 January 2023 diff hist +431 N ContactsCreated page with "==Contacts== This Primer is a work in progress. Additional features and filters are added from time to time by Dirk Koopman, G1TLH, the developer behind DXSpider. So periodic revisions will be made to this document. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions relative to this primer on spot filtering, please contact, Jim Samuels, W3BG jimsam@comcast.net or Dave Hawes, N3RD (W3FRC Cluster SYSOP) dave.n3rd@comcast.net" current
  • 18:4818:48, 24 January 2023 diff hist +2,720 N Some Practice ExamplesCreated page with "=Some Practice Examples= The proceeding sections have discussed the basics of DXSpider filters. The following are some examples utilizing basic filters and some not so basic combination filters. Let's say you don't want to see any of those 6m, 2m, or 220 spots. reject/spot 0 on uhf As a good stand alone contest filter ... accept/spot on contesthf/<mode> where mode is either CW, SSB, or RTTY '''Note:''' since a slot number is not included slot 1 is assumed. It's..." current
  • 18:4818:48, 24 January 2023 diff hist +651 N Clear filtersCreated page with "=Clear filters= A clear filter line will delete the slot number specified or all slots and consequently all filters that have been created by a user. Syntax: clear/spots [0-9] or clear/spots all Example ... This will clear any or both accept and reject spot filters in slot 2. clear/spots 2 This will clear each and every user spot filter - it will clear out all filters in all slots. clear/spots all '''Note''' - if you just want to replace a spot filter, ent..." current
  • 18:4718:47, 24 January 2023 diff hist +7,405 N Accept filtersCreated page with "=Accept filters= An accept filter line means that if a spot matches pass it on to the user, send it down the line to the next rule or to the user, and trash, dump, all other spots that do not match to the next filter line. Syntax: accept/spots [0-9] <pattern> Any of the following patterns may be used in this line ... freq <range> on <range> info <string> call <prefixes> call_dxcc <numbers> call_itu <numbers> call_zone <numbers> call_state <state2-letter abb..." current
  • 18:4718:47, 24 January 2023 diff hist +9,921 N Reject filtersCreated page with "=Reject filters= A reject filter line means that if a spot matches, send it to the trash, dump it, do not send it down the line to the next rule or to the user, but pass-on all other spots that do not match. Syntax: reject/spots [0-9] <pattern> Any of the following patterns may be used in this line ... freq <range> on <range> info <string> call <prefixes> call_dxcc <numbers> call_itu <numbers> call_zone <numbers> call_state <state 2-letter abbreviations> b..." current
  • 18:4618:46, 24 January 2023 diff hist +6,159 N Types of spot filters used in DXSpiderCreated page with "==Types of spot filters used in DXSpider== Basic filter types are "accept", "reject", and "clear" where the following applies ... *Reject filters - any spots that match will be dumped, all others passed on. *Accept filters - any spots that match are passed on, all others are dumped. *Clear filters - the filter slot(s) referenced will be cleared from the filter repository For the most part we will use only reject and accept filters. These are the main filter types. Ba..." current
  • 18:4618:46, 24 January 2023 diff hist +1,868 N Configuring spot filtersCreated page with "==What is a spot filter== A spot filter is one rule (a one line spot filter) or multiple rules (multiple line spot filters) that a user can setup within DXSpider to control which specific spot(s) are received at the shack console. These configurable filters/rules reside on the DXSpider node and are stored along with the user's other information. Filters can be likened to a car wash . . . . . like cars, information goes in one end dirty, gets washed and comes out the oth..." current
  • 18:4618:46, 24 January 2023 diff hist +609 N ForewordCreated page with "While attempting to learn how DXSpider filters work, I found that I had to glean bits and pieces of information from the DXSpider User Manual and Administrators Guide as well as various posted messages, help files and the program and data-base files themselves. Therefore, this is by no means an original work. I have used and in some cases copied from some of these sources. What I have tried to accomplish is to gather this scattered information, put it in one spot (please..." current
  • 18:4518:45, 24 January 2023 diff hist +152 N IntroductionCreated page with "The original PacketCluster software written in the mid-80s by Dick Newell, AK1A. DXSpider is a modern replacement and is written by Dirk Koopman, G1TLH." current
  • 18:4518:45, 24 January 2023 diff hist +2,821 DXSpider Filtering ManualNo edit summary current
  • 18:4418:44, 24 January 2023 diff hist +152 N DXSpider Filtering ManualCreated page with "The original PacketCluster software written in the mid-80s by Dick Newell, AK1A. DXSpider is a modern replacement and is written by Dirk Koopman, G1TLH."
  • 18:4218:42, 24 January 2023 diff hist +910 N The crontab fileCreated page with "==General Information== The following relates to all versions of DXSpider and is not platform related. ===The crontab file=== Login as 'sysop' and create a file in /spider/local_cmd called crontab. Edit it with your favourite editor and add a line like this (I have included a comment) # check every 10 minutes to see if gb7xxx is connected and if not # start a connect job going 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * start_connect('gb7xxx') unless connected('gb7xxx') The callsi..." current
  • 18:4118:41, 24 January 2023 diff hist +7,271 N Installing the softwareCreated page with "==Installing the software== At this point you will need to create 2 additional directories under "C:\Spider." Make directories "C:\spider\local" and "C:\spider\local_cmd". If "C:\spider" is missing, go back and figure out why, because it shouldn't be. Now create your own local copy of the DXVars.pm file by:- copy c:\spider\perl\DXVars.pm.issue c:\spider\local\DXVars.pm Now you'll need to edit this file using a text editor like Notepad. If nothing else, you can si..." current
  • 18:4118:41, 24 January 2023 diff hist +5,762 N Microsoft Windows InstallationCreated page with "==Microsoft Windows Installation== ===Introduction=== IMPORTANT: What you'll be left with once you've followed these instructions is (hopefully) a working DX Spider v1.55 system that is capable of accepting or originating "internet" connections, plus inbound and outbound AX.25 and TCP/IP radio connections. Whatever, this document is intended to get you started with DX Spider in a Microsoft Windows (TM) environment. It's not intended to teach you anything other than h..." current
  • 18:4018:40, 24 January 2023 diff hist +16,069 N ConfigurationCreated page with "==Configuration== ===Allowing ax25 connects from users=== This is dealt with in the previous section ===Setting up telnet connects (from 1.47 onwards)=== From version 1.47 you can choose to allow the perl cluster.pl program to allow connections directly (i.e. not via the /spider/src/client interface program). If you are using Windows then this is the only method available of allowing incoming telnet connections. to make the change happen... Having done that, you ne..." current
  • 18:4018:40, 24 January 2023 diff hist +13,224 N Setting up the AX25 UtilitiesCreated page with "==Setting up the AX25 Utilities== The aim of this section is not to fully cover the installation and configuration of all the possible ax25 modules. I will attempt to cover a simple installation and configure 2 serial ports as if they had TNC's on them. I will also show what additional configuration the DXSpider program requires. Please bear in mind that I am basing this section on a RedHat 7.1 distribution, if you are using SuSe or any other distibution then your mi..." current
  • 18:3918:39, 24 January 2023 diff hist +2,132 N Running more than one instance of DXSpiderCreated page with "Sometimes you may need to run more than one instance of DXSpider on the same machine. The information below should help you achieve that. Although you don't need to create a new user it makes some things slightly easier. So. * create a new user (say sysop2) * login (or su or sudo bash) to root * cd ~sysop2 * mkdir spider * cd /spider * cp -a * ~sysop2/spider * cd ~sysop2 * chown -R sysop2:sysop2 spider * vi /etc/inittab * copy the line: sp:2345:respawn:su -c "perl..." current
  • 18:3918:39, 24 January 2023 diff hist +9,293 N Centos6Created page with "== Introduction == Centos is a community rebuild of Redhat enterprise linux (RHEL) and the instructions given here will also work for other modern redhat based linux distributions such as RHEL,Scientific Linux, Fedora Linux Centos is an excellent choice of linux distribution to run DXSpider on.  RHEL (& by extension Centos) is supported for ten years from it's release date, the Centos 6.x series will be supported until 2020. Installing Dxspider on centos version 6..." current
  • 18:3818:38, 24 January 2023 diff hist +1,691 N Linux quick installation guideCreated page with "==Linux quick installation guide== This section is designed for experienced Spider sysops who want to install Spider from scratch. It is simply a check list of things that need to be done without any explanations. The name in brackets at the end of each line is the user that should be doing that process. *Login as root *Get the additional CPAN modules and install them (root) *Create the "sysop" user and set a password (root) *Put the Spider tarball in sysop and..." current

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