AX25IPD(8)

💖 ax25ipd(8) — the AX.25 into IP Encapsulator 💖

okay bestie, sit down, we're reading the Linux Programmer's Manual page for ax25ipd(8) together and honestly? it's giving legend behaviour. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

ax25ipd — AX.25 into IP Encapsulator

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ax25ipd [options]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so ax25ipd is an RFC1226 compliant daemon, and what it does is provide all the encapsualtion neccessary to send and receive AX.25 traffic across an IP transport. literally carrying your packets over the internet, no cap. 💅

normally you'd invoke it as part of the boot order network initialisation, and it can talk directly to a serial port connected tnc, or over a pipe to a linux AX.25 port. KAM DE Dual Port Kiss? also supported. we love range. 🔥

it can run as a pure encapsulator, or as a digital repeater with a functional callsign. destination IP addresses get figured out from a hardcoded map of callsign/IP Address pairs. it's giving matchmaking but for addresses. 💌

and by default it uses /etc/ax25/ax25ipd.conf as its config file. that's the one. that's the girl. 🌈

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -v,--version — Display the version. gotta know which era of slay you're running. 👑
• -h,--help — Display a summary of the command line options. your little cheat sheet, bestie. 🫶
• -l,--loglevelNUM — Set the logging level to NUM. 🍓
• -c,--configfileFILE — Use the configuration file named by FILE instead of the default. 🌸
• -d,--ttydeviceTTYDEV — Use ttydevice instead of the configured. This is useful because on systems with unix98 PTYs the device is allocated dynamicaly and thus the name is not predictable. 😭 (the chaos. the drama. it's giving unpredictable.)
• -f,--nofork — Do not become a daemon. Run in foreground. stay with me, don't ghost. 🙈

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/ax25/ax25ipd.conf

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

ax25ipd.conf beacon(1), ax25(4), netrom(4), rose(4), kissattach(8).

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💀 BUGS 💀

heads up, this section is a whole mood and we're keeping it real.

• Routing needs to be looked at seriously, the method of routing is a real hack, and improvements to it have only added to the hack. 😭 not the hack on hack crime.
• Logging needs to be properly implemented. it's giving vibes only.
• Command line parsing needs to be properly implemented. fr fr.
• ax25ipd should be part of the Linux AX.25 kernel support probably :-) 💖

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Michael Westerhof <Mike.Westerhof@Central.Sun.COM> <invalid address>
• Michael Durrant VE3PNX <mdurrant@arcturusnetworks.com>
• D. Jeff Dionne VE3DJF <Jeff@lnx_rpi.ee.ryerson.ca>
• Rob Mayfield VK5XXX/VK5ZEU <mayfieldrob@mail.dec.com>
• Terry Dawson VK2KTJ <terry@animats.net>

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this absolute icon of a manual page is from the Linux crew, dated 12 September 2001, and it lives under the name AX25IPD(8). mwah. 💋✨💖