Re: ✘ntrip:// and tcp://

[Nick Taylor]

Hi Gary

On 15/10/2021 21:14, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> Yo Nick!
>
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:17:19 +0100
> Nick Taylor <nicktaylor@dataskill.uk> wrote:
>
> > We use kplex for testing.
> >
> > http://www.stripydog.com/kplex/
> >
> >    In order to simulate real world as near as possible we run kplex on
> > one server - mine looks like this:
> >
> > kplex serial:direction=in,filename=/dev/gps_data,baud=9600
> > tcp:direction=out,mode=server,persist=no
> Interesting.  But kplex is not in the Gentoo repository, and I
> want to read from gpsd.  socat dies it fine:
>
> $ socat EXEC:'gpspipe -r' TCP-LISTEN:2948,reuseaddr,fork
Works great for me too - one of our guys found kplex but it's probably 
over complex for this simple application. Cheers for that guys!
> > Then we can simulate different types of disconnects either by
> > unplugging cable or using iptables to block comms out of the server
> > running kplex
> iptables is pretty obsolete, netfilter is the way.
Good point - again one of our guys gave me an iptables command - more 
learning :D

All the best

Nick