BPQPARMS(8)

📦 version 1.1.0, in alpine 3.24, debian bookworm, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 BPQPARMS 💖 — the bpqparms page, section 8 (Linux System Managers Manual, bestie)

okay so welcome to the group chat, we're talking about bpqparms today and honestly? iconic behavior. it's a sysadmin-adjacent tool, manual section 8, and it's here to make your BPQ ethernet devices behave. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

bpqparms — Configure BPQ ethernet devices.

like. that's the whole vibe. configuring BPQ ethernet devices. that's what she does 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bpqparms device [-a ethaddr] [-d ethaddr] [-vV]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so bpqparms lets you set the BPQ Ethernet options for one specific device, okay? not all of them, one of them. main character energy but for a single interface, we love that for her 💖

here's the lore: every BPQ Ethernet device shows up as a device named bpq0...bpqN, and it overlays the original Ethernet device, which is usually eth0...ethN. think of it like a lil glow-up layered on top of your regular ethernet, no cap ✨

that device is an AX.25 device driver, and it lets AX.25 frames get transmitted over an Ethernet to another machine using the same protocol. literally talking over the wire in AX.25. obsessed 😭

and the default? the default for the device is to send and receive BPQ Ethernet packets to the broadcast address. yes, just yelling into the void for everyone to hear, that's the factory setting bestie 🌈

also, important: this program replaces the previous axparms -dev option. so if you were still out here using that, it's giving legacy. we've moved on, periodt 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -a ethaddr — lets you set which ethernet address will be accepted by the BPQ Ethernet device. like, who's allowed in the door 🚪✨
  • -d ethaddr — if you specify this one on its own, it sets the destination ethernet address that'll be used for transmitting and for receiving BPQ ethernet packets. and an address of "broadcast" sets it to the ethernet broadcast address 📣 (very "hey everyone" of it)
  • -v — displays the version number. cute lil check-in, love that 🌸
  • -V — the original version messages. the vintage ones. the classics 👑

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

go read those too, they're the supporting cast 🦋

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Joerg Reuter DL1BKE <jreuter@poboxes.com> — king behavior, we stan 👑

reminder bestie: this whole thing is Linux, dated 4 September 1996. yes, 1996. she's vintage, she's a classic, and she still ate. 💜🎀
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