On 10/06/12 00:35, K7VE - John wrote:
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Just a word here.  

D-STAR Digital Data as implemented by Icom uses the D-STAR Frame for routing on air and from gateway to gateway.  So you will want to test before deploying a network in a mesh environment.  

I'm not sure if ID-1s treat UR:CQCQCQ as a broadcast for DD, thus enabling an IP payload to transparently go to multiple receivers.  I don't know the answer, but I'd test well.  The test could be performed with two ID-1s on DD simplex (not RPS) and setting both to UR:CQCQCQ and try to pass traffic.  The payload is Ethernet frames, so  it should just act as an Ethernet bridge over RF if the CQCQCQ D-STAR address functions as broadcast.

The protocol itself is ambiguous on this point.


Actually it does, which I've found out experimentally in the past.

Regards
John
EI7IG