RIP98.CONF(5)

✨ RIP98.CONF(5) ✨

okay bestie, so this is from the Linux Programmer's Manual</> — it's the rip98.conf page, section 5, and it's literally the lil instruction sheet for your RIP98 routing setup 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

rip98d.conf — the file that controls how RIP98 routing messages go out into the world 💌

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So <hotpink>rip98d.conf</> is the one in charge of transmitting RIP98 routing messages</>. That's its whole job, and it does it slay 💅

Here's the tea though — and this part is important, no cap: RIP98 is NOT a broadcast protocol. It doesn't just yell into the void and hope somebody hears it. Nope. Instead, it's transmitted individually to each other known RIP98 capable system</>. One by one, personally, like sliding into each system's DMs 🙈

And where does it keep the receipts on who all those systems are? Right here in the RIP98 configuration file, bestie. It's kept as a list of host names or IP numbers</> that are to be transmitted to, and messages received from. So it's a two-way list — who you send to, and who you'll accept messages from. Mutuals only, basically 🫶

💖 FILES 💖

• /etc/ax25/rip98d.conf

that's the one, that's the file, go be free ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• arp(8)
• ifconfig(8)
• rip98d(8)
• route(8)

go read those too, they're all iconic in their own way ⭐

and that's the whole page, periodt 💜 this version is the Linux</> one, dated 2 August 1996</> — vintage but still eating, fr fr 🌈🦋