AX25RTD(8)

💖 AX25RTD 💖

bestie. okay. so. this is the AX.25 routing daemon and she is literally the group chat admin of your packet radio setup 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

ax25rtd — the AX.25 routing daemon, no cap 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ax25rtd

that's it. that's the whole invocation. she just runs 💅

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so ax25rtd is a daemon, and here's the thing she does — and I'm gonna list it because the way she multi-tasks is genuinely iconic:

• emulates the ceased "autorouter" of Linux Kernel AX.25 🔥
• sets up ARP entries automagically ✨
• may adjust IP routes and encapsulation mode (although I really do not recomment to use this feature...) 🙈

💀 not me leaving that typo in. the original manpage really said recomment. we honor the ancestors here. but also, fr fr, don't use that feature.

So about the "autorouter" — bestie, she's not really an autorouter, and I need you to sit with that for a sec. 🫶 She's not out here solving puzzles or calculating optimal paths. She just listens to the AX.25 traffic on your ports and uses that info to set up AX.25 routes. That's the whole vibe. Passive. Observant. Main character energy but make it lowkey. 👑

You can turn this on or off by altering the configuration file /etc/ax25/ax25rtd.conf. 🎀

She also provides a socket at /var/ax25/ax25rtd/control — and ooh this is the good part — which is used for runtime maintainance through ax25rtctl 💅 or to set up new routes by other daemons (a Flexnet router, perhaps? 🌈). iykyk.

And the lifecycle, because the way she handles state is so organized:

• On startup, ax25rtd reads the configuration file and afterwards preloads the caches from the files /var/ax25/ax25rtd/ax25_routes and /var/ax25/ax25rtd/ip_routes. 🧚
• On SIGTERM or ax25rtctl --save it saves the caches to those files. 💾

she remembers everything. she never forgets. periodt. ✨

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/ax25/ax25rtd.conf

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• ax25rtd.conf(5)
• ax25rtctl(8)

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

• Joerg Reuter <jreuter@poboxes.com>
• Llaus Kudielka OE1KIB

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and that's the page, bestie — brought to you by the Linux Programmer's Manual, dated 11 November 2003, on the AX25RTD(8) page itself 💖 go set up some routes, you got this 🫶✨