Kantronics KPC–3 Plus User Manual page 108

You'll get the usual disconnect message from your TNC, as noted. If however, your
distant partner, in this case NØKN, disconnects the link, you'll see the following (due to
the ―STAY‖ in ―C NØAPJ STAY‖ in the example earlier):
###DISCONNECTED BY NØAPJ AT NODE KC
ENTER COMMAND B,C,J,N,X, or Help ?
Frequently when connecting to a distant city, you may wish to talk to more than one
station. Perhaps when you connected, you got a message saying ―I'm not here right
now, please leave a message in my PBBS‖. By using the ―S(tay)‖ option when telling a
KA-Node to connect to another station, the KA-Node will not disconnect from you if it
receives a disconnect from the distant station. Instead, you will receive a message from
the KA-Node saying ###DISCONNECTED BY (call) AT NODE (MYNODE). In other
words, if you connected from Lawrence, Kansas to a KA-Node in Lincoln, Nebraska,
and then told that KA-Node to connect to someone using the command ―C call Stay‖.
Then if that station sent you the above message and disconnected, you would remain
connected to the KA-Node in Lincoln! This would allow you to issue a connect directly to
his BBS, without having to re-establish the entire path.
In multiple KA-Node paths, each time you say B(ye) to the distant KA-Node, this will
return you to the next previous KA-Node which had been told to ―Stay‖ in the chain of
KA-Nodes. From that point, you could build a path in a different direction. One point to
note here is that if you use the KA-Node to connect to a BBS (WØRLI or WA7MBL for
instance), and use the STAY option, then say B(ye) to the BBS, you would remain
connected to the KA-Node closest to the BBS. If you issue the connect without the
STAY option, any disconnect from either end will cause the entire link to disconnect.
Automatic Disconnect
If a user abandons a connection to a KA-Node or a link between two KA-Nodes without
disconnecting and there is no activity through the link for a specified period of time (see
KNTIMER), the node will initiate a disconnect.
Using the XCONNECT Command
Note: The XCONNECT command is available only on Kantronics' multi-port TNCs,
such as the KPC-9612 Plus. Single-port TNCs (e.g., KPC-3 Plus) do not support this
command, but they may connect to a KA-NODE that does.
The cross-connect (XCONNECT) command is a unique feature of the KA-Node. This
command allows cross linking between two frequencies through the node in much the
same manner as the Kantronics unique gateway, but with local acknowledgment of
packets.
For example, suppose you just connected to node LAWKAN and wish to cross-connect
to NØGRG whose station is tuned to the frequency of the other port of the node. Just
issue X NØGRG following the node prompt:
ENTER COMMAND B,C,J,N,X, or Help
X NØGRG <CR>
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