<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Scott,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">You are asking some questions which have come up several times and I don't think we have ever really successfully answer them.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Re: Window10 Chattyness: You could put a firewall between the Windows10 box and the HamWAN radio, blocking anything which wasn't directed to WinLink systems. (After turning off as much of the auto-updates and other phone home things as you can in Windows) I agree that nearly all this is over TLS connections now.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I don't have a good suggestion for the call into the Winlink CMS system, unless there is some kind of proxy you can put in the middle. Maybe you stick the logs on a server some where and make them available, so you are not obfuscating anything going over the link? (giant hack)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">73,<br>Kenny</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:52 AM Scott Currie <<a href="mailto:scott.d.currie@gmail.com">scott.d.currie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Gang,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I'm in the process of re-building my Winlink Gateway, with the intent to move it to the local fire station hose tower (a much better location). I am planning to use the data ring for access to the Winlink system, and the site does have coverage from Tiger. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I have two problems, I think....</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">First, I think that "RMS Packet", the server application, has switched to an SSL connection to the Winlink CMS system. I believe they do still support the non-SSL port, so I think I can force that using the hosts file. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The bigger problem is that this will be running on a Win10 host to support the Vara FM protocol, which is currently Windows only. Win10 tends to be rather "chatty", and I suspect (though I have not confirmed) that most of it's background noise is SSL/TLS. Has anyone looked at this, and can Win10 be made to "shutup"?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I suppose I could run LinBPQ on a RasPi as the main gateway, and just use the Win10 box as a modem on an isolated segment, but that seems like a lot of work.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thoughts?</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b><i>-Scott</i></b></div></div></div>
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