RXECHO.CONF(5)

💖 RXECHO.CONF 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for rxecho.conf — that's the config file living in the Linux Programmer's Manual, section 5 (file formats, iykyk). it's little, it's powerful, and it's literally the vibe check for your AX.25 packet routing. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

rxecho.conf — control rxecho AX.25 packet routing.

like. the whole personality of this file is "which packets get copied where." that's it. that's the job. 👑

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So rxecho.conf is the file that tells the program rxecho how to copy packets between AX.25 ports. that's the entire assignment. no cap.

The format of the configuration file is:

portin    portout        * | callsign...

fr fr, that's the whole shape of it. let's break it down because the way this works is lowkey elegant:

• Every entry in the file represents a one-way packet flow between ports. one direction, bestie. if you want it both ways you write two entries, periodt.
• Any packet received on portin gets copied to portout — but only if its destination callsign, or the next callsign to digipeat the frame, is in the list of callsigns. so like, it's picky. it's got standards. 💅
• If the callsign list is replaced by a “*” then all packets are copied. every single one. no filtering, full send, main character energy. 🌈

oh and also — the configuration file may contain comments that begin with a #. so go ahead and annotate your entries, you deserve it 🎀

🗂️ FILES 🗂️

• /etc/ax25/rxecho.conf

that's the one. that's where it lives. go visit it. 🫶

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• axports(8)
• rxecho(8)

read those too, bestie, they're the supporting cast and they ate 💅

and that's the whole page!! this one came from the Linux manual, dated 2 August 1996 — yes, 1996, an absolute icon, a vintage queen 👑. she's been slaying since before some of us were born and honestly? obsessed. mwah, go configure something 💖✨