The "legacy" HTML interface dates from the days of Windows 95 and Netscape, when “amprnet” was proper IP over RADIO, not just another internet-based VPN, so HTML had to be lean and mean.

The world, and browser technology, has moved on. The legacy interface is old-hat now, and most sysops no longer have the skills or desire to roll their own HTML.

So a second, (slightly) more modern, HTML interface has been added. This interface, nicknamed the “full-fat” interface, is 100% inbuilt and requires no additional HTML pages. It is a work in progress however. What follows is just the beginning…

The name “full-fat” started as a joke, but has stuck! By default it looks like this:

The colours and fonts can be tweaked using CSS. A few seconds work, can produce something much better than the default, or something truly awful like this

Ok, delete that CSS file, and let's look at some of the available pages, starting at the bottom of the protocol stack with PORTS.

The text isn't supposed to be centred, that's a bug

Moving up the protocol stack we have AX25 LINKS…

At the next step up the stack we have Layer 3 neighbours (Routes)…

There's a lot more to show, so we'll skip the sub-pages and move up to the NODES page…

Clicking on a node opens up its info page like this:

Moving up, we have STATS…

At session layer, USERS shows the current and recent sessions:

(to be continued…)