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On 12 Jan 2000, Luc Gosselin wrote: > > Hi, I am the ESA at BTV NWS and Fred at ERH gave me your e-mail address as > the > point of contact for the weather service. > > I am trying to get an LDM ver 5.0.9 on Linux to communicate through the nic > card. I have read through all the e-mails that I can stand and I still have > not > found what I'm looking for. Currently we use the LDM in the office to listen > on > a TTY port and use the pqing in the ldmd.conf to set it up. Well, as you > know > things are changing now and what I would like to do is listen on the nic > (ether > port) instead. I have read a few bits and pieces about the pqing with a -P > option but I noticed that the source code for pqing.c has these references > rem'd > out. So here's the big question. If I un-rem all references to "net" and "P" > (looks like two places) and recompile would I then be able to listen for > incoming products on the nic. Luc, I'm currently at he AMS in Long Beach so the answer may be short. Look at: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/ldm/3361 Also do I have to insert another line in the > /etc/services (i.e. ldm2 5005/tcp ldm2) or is it in the rpc file? I don't fully understand why you are using 5005, look at: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/ldmPreInstallList.html#s8 Keep in > mind this is for one single LDM box to listen to a data stream (nic card) that > is sending products off and on all day long. We already have other LDM's > talking to one another but that is not what I need for this particular case. > The data is in AFOS (WMO) format and is being sent via another process. > > I considered pqinsert but the configuration and amount of data is too much. > > I would really appreciate any info. The newest info I see on the web is dated > 1996 for the man pages and it is not in there. So if you can point me in the > right direction it would be appreciated for the set up. The -P option was not documented, before my support time. You could look up vietor for more info. Robb... > > > Thanks > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > Luc Gosselin address@hidden > Systems Analyst www.nws.noaa.gov/er/btv/ > National Weather Service 802-862-8711x228 > Burlington International Airport Fax 802-660-0705 > South Burlington, VT 05403 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================