AXPORTS(5) Linux Programmer's Manual AXPORTS(5)
NAME
axports - AX.25 port configuration file.
DESCRIPTION
Axports is an ASCII file(1,n) that contains information about each of the
physical AX.25 ports that are to be used. When dealing with an AX.25
utility such as call, it takes an optional argument that is the port
name. This port name is a reference to the line within axports, which
has that name as its first argument. The information on each line con-
tains enough information to bind(2,n,1 builtins) the command to a particular physical
AX.25 interface, this binding is done by matching the callsign on the
line in(1,8) axports with the callsign of the port set(7,n,1 builtins) by kissattach.
The lines within axports must either be a comment line, which starts
with a # in(1,8) the first column, or a port description in(1,8) the following
format, each field being delimited by white space:
name callsign speed paclen window description
The field descriptions are:
name is the unique identifier of the port. This is the
name given as the port argument of many of the
AX.25 support programs.
callsign the callsign of the physical interface to bind(2,n,1 builtins) to.
speed this is the speed of interface, a value of zero
means that no speed will be set(7,n,1 builtins) by kissattach(8).
paclen is the default maximum packet size for this inter-
face.
window the default window size for this interface.
description a free format description of this interface, this
field extends to the end of the line. This field
may contain spaces.
FILES
/etc/ax25(3,4)/axports
SEE ALSO
call(1), ax25(3,4)(4), axparms(8), kissattach(8).
Linux 15 October 1996 AXPORTS(5)