NRPORTS(5)

💖 NRPORTS(5) 💖

ok so bestie, welcome to nrports — the NET/ROM port configuration file, from the Linux Programmer's Manual. it's giving very "little file, huge main character energy" and i'm obsessed 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

nrports — the NET/ROM port configuration file. that's it, that's the name, slay.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

ok so listen. nrports is an ASCII file and it holds the tea on every single NET/ROM port you're gonna use. every one. no port left behind 💅

here's the cute part: when you're dealing with a NET/ROM utility like call, it takes an optional argument that is the port name. and that port name? it's literally a reference to the line inside nrports that has the same name. like a little name tag at a party 🎀

the info on each line is enough to bind the command to a particular NET/ROM interface. how does that binding happen, you ask? by matching the callsign on the line in nrports with the callsign of the port set by ifconfig. they gotta match. it's a matching-soulmates situation fr fr 🫶

now, the nrports file can also contain comments — those start with a # in the first column, no exceptions. or, you can put a port description, in this exact format, with every field delimited by white space:

name callsign alias paclen description

and now the field descriptions, one by one, because we do not skip 💖

• name — the unique NET/ROM port identifier. unique, bestie. one of a kind. 👑
• callsign — the callsign of the NET/ROM interface you're binding to.
• alias — the alias of the NET/ROM port.
• paclen — the default packet size for this interface.
• description — a free format description of this interface. this field extends alllll the way to the end of the line, and yes, it may contain spaces 🌈

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/ax25/nrports

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• call(1)
• netrom(4)
• ifconfig(8)
• nrparms(8)

ok that's the whole page, no notes 💖 go forth and configure your ports, bestie. iykyk ✨

signed off with love from the Linux girlies, version date 2 August 1996 — 100% iconic, no cap 💅👑