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.

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John D. Hays
K7VE

PO Box 1223, Edmonds, WA 98020-1223

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 12:43 PM, John Ronan <jpronans@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi,

I've got two machines running here on the, 44.155.6.225 and 44.155.6.226. I'd appreciate if someone on the 44-net could just check they can reach 44.155.2.226 for me please (it could be slow, machine is going an apt-get update at the moment).

Also, would anyone be in a position to tell me what the best wireless mesh protocol to use is at the moment. These are two Icom ID-1 D-star radios. I've two more that two local hams are going to put running for me on high points and I'd like to run something 'mesh' on the nodes to allow me to get back to the gateway (225) from anywhere within range of any three?

Regards
John
EI7IG

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