The DXSpider Installation Manual v1.49

Iain Philipps, G0RDI (g0rdi@77hz.com) and Ian Maude, G0VGS, (g0vgs@ea1dav.net)

1. Linux Installation

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Preparation
• 1.3 Installing the software
• 1.4 Setting callsigns etc
• 1.5 The client program
• 1.6 Starting up for the first time

2. Linux quick installation guide

3. Configuration

• 3.1 Allowing ax25 connects from users
• 3.2 Allowing telnet connects from users
• 3.3 Setting up telnet connects (from 1.47 onwards)
• 3.4 Setting up for AGW Engine (1.47 onwards)
• 3.5 Setting up node connects
• 3.6 Connection scripts
• 3.7 Starting the connection
• 3.8 Telnet echo
• 3.9 Autostarting the cluster

4. Microsoft Windows Installation

• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 The requirements
• 4.3 The system
• 4.4 Perl
• 4.5 Additional packages
• 4.6 Getting Spider

5. Installing the software

• 5.1 Incoming telnets
• 5.2 The AGW packet engine
• 5.3 Setting up the initial user files
• 5.4 Connecting to other clusters

6. General Information

• 6.1 The crontab file