NRBROADCAST(5)

✨ NRBROADCAST ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for nrbroadcast — the NET/ROM routing broadcast configuration file 💖 it lives in the Linux Programmer's Manual (yes, nrbroadcast(5), section 5, we love a config file moment) and it's genuinely not scary, i promise 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

nrbroadcast is an ASCII file that holds the tea ☕ about every single physical AX.25 port that's gonna have NET/ROM routing broadcasts transmitted out of it. so basically: which ports are out here yelling about routes, and how loud/how picky they are about it 📣

Each line follows this format, and every field is delimited by white space (spaces, tabs, whatever — just give it some breathing room, bestie):

port minobs defqual worstqual verbose

Now let's break down the field descriptions, one by one, no skips 💅

• port — the port name of the AX.25 port to broadcast on. like, which one of your ports is doing the talking 🎤
• minobs — this is the minimum obsolescence count of a routing table entry to be broadcast on this port. if an entry is fresher than this? it's not making the cut, sorry babe 🙈
• defqual — this is the default quality of an incoming routing broadcast from an unknown neighbour. you don't know them, so they get the default glow-up rating ✨
• worstqual — this is the worst quality node received from a routing broadcast that will still be added to our routing table. anything worse than this gets rejected, it's giving quality control 😭
• verbose — whether the routes to all of my nodes in my routing table are to be broadcast, or just the nodes resident on my machine. so: everything i know, or only the ones that literally live here 🏠

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/ax25/nrbroadcast
• /etc/ax25/axports

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• call(1)
• netrom(4)
• axports(5)
• netromd(8)
• nrparms(8)

and that's the whole vibe check 🦋 this page came from the Linux manual, dated 2 August 1996 — yes it's an elder, and yes it still ate 💅🧚⭐