X-Git-Url: http://dxcluster.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=sgml%2Fadminmanual.sgml;h=f075b7988bb9a35e03316d921e811fe9350b3e60;hb=b03a751903070dc2ddd34383d5a4a2820c4d1204;hp=d6fb29940ca80701b12555b89ae1fed1aa24cd66;hpb=d2c1a8cb2a31725e3b9084aee3ec43e585e3273f;p=spider.git diff --git a/sgml/adminmanual.sgml b/sgml/adminmanual.sgml index d6fb2994..f075b798 100644 --- a/sgml/adminmanual.sgml +++ b/sgml/adminmanual.sgml @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
In fact DXSpider has had a simple system for some time which is called
-
-The new functionality introduced in version 1.48 is filtering the node
+The new functionality introduced in version 1.48 allows filtering the node
and user protocol frames on a "per interface" basis. We call this
What this really means is that you can control more or less completely
-which PC protocol frames, to do with user and node management, pass to
-each of your partner nodes. You can also limit what comes into your
-node from your partners. You can even control the settings that your
-partner node has for the routing information that it sends to you
+which user and node management PC protocol frames pass to each of your
+partner nodes. You can also limit what comes into your node from your
+partners. It is even possible to control the settings that your partner
+node has for the routing information that it sends to you
(using the
-The first thing that you must do is determine whether you need to do route filtering
-You will only require this functionality if you are
-"well-connected". What that means is that you are connected to several
-different parts of (say) the EU cluster and, at the same time, also
-connected to two or three places in the US which, in turn are
-connected back to the EU. This is called a "loop" and if you are
-seriously looped then you need filtering.
+To put it simply, you should not mix Isolation and Route Filtering. It
+will work, of sorts, but you will not get the expected results. If you
+are using Isolation sucessfully at the moment, do not get involved in
+Route Filtering unless you have a good supply of aspirin! Once you have
+started down the road of Route Filtering, do not use Isolation either.
+Use one or the other, not both.
+
+
+You will only require this functionality if you are "well-connected". What
+that means is that you are connected to several different parts of (say)
+the EU cluster and, at the same time, also connected to two or three places
+in the US which, in turn are connected back to the EU. This is called a
+"loop" and if you are seriously looped then you need filtering.
I should at this stage give a little bit of background on filters. All
@@ -125,7 +133,8 @@ channel_zone <numbers>
Please be careful if you alter this setting, it will affect
-
For the default routing filter then you have two real choices: either
@@ -164,9 +173,9 @@ by implication, any other node information (not from the UK and Eire)
is accepted.
-As I imagine it will take a little while to get one's head around all of this you
-can study the effect of any rules that you try by watching the debug output
-after having done:-
+As I imagine it will take a little while to get one's head around all of
+this you can study the effect of any rules that you try by watching the
+debug output after having done:-
-It is possible to do
-A DX Spot has a number of fields which can checked to see whether they
+A DX Spot has a number of fields which can be checked to see whether they
contain "bad" values, they are: the DX callsign itself, the Spotter and
the Originating Node.
@@ -875,7 +884,7 @@ any legal command for a callsign or class of connection which will be executed
at logon.
-The filename are the callsign of the connection that you want the script to
+The filename is the callsign of the connection that you want the script to
operate on, eg: /spider/scripts/g1tlh. The filenames are always in
lower case on those architectures where this makes a difference.
@@ -1349,14 +1358,9 @@ that it is possible to update your DXSpider installation to the latest
sources by using a few simple commands.
-THIS IS NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED!!! ONLY DO THIS IF YOU HAVE A TEST
-INSTALLATION OR ARE WILLING TO HAVE YOUR CLUSTER CRASH ON YOU!!!
-THIS MUST BE CONSIDERED AT LEAST BETA TESTING AND MAYBE EVEN ALPHA!!
-YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!
-
-
-DID I MENTION..... ONLY DO THIS IF YOU ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT THE
-CONSEQUENCES!!!
+Please be aware that if you update your system using CVS, it is possible that
+you could be running code that is very beta and not fully tested. There is
+a possibility that it could be unstable.
I am of course assuming that you have a machine with both DXSpider and