M6PACK(8)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so m6pack(8) — from the Linux System Managers Manual — is the program for attaching multiples of 6PACK interfaces 💅✨ That’s the vibe: this is the manual page for m6pack, no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

m6pack [-l] [-s speed] [-x n_ptmx] [-v] ttyinterface pty ..

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

m6pack lets multiple 6PACK TNCs that are sharing the same serial port be used with the Linux AX.25 kernel software. The way the AX.25 software works, it has no support for multiple TNCs sharing the same serial line 😭. The different ports are addressed by encoding the port number in the control byte of every 6pack frame. m6pack watches a serial port, and routes 6pack frames to/from the pseudo ttys. The other side of the pseudo ttys is then attached with spattach as normal 🫶.

bestie, you can get stats about how m6pack is doing by sending the SIGUSR1 signal to the running program 👀. On reception of such a signal, m6pack will print a set of statistics to the system log if logging has been enabled.

Although mention is made of using pseudo ttys as the last arguments, these devices may be normal serial ports. However m6pack provides no way in which to set their speed, so the speed must therefore be set by some other method ⚠️.

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -l — Enables system logging, the default is off 💤.
• -s speed — Set the speed of the serial port ⚡.
• -v — Display the version 🏷️.
• -x number — This option is for Unix98 PTYs. It allocates “number” ptys; their names are written to stdout 📝. When -x is used, the pty arguments are optional ✨.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• spattach(8) 🫶
• ifconfig(8) 🌐
• kill(1) 💀

👑 AUTHORS 👑

I.aki Arenaza EB2EBU <iarenaza@escomposlinux.org>, based in the work by: Tomi Manninen OH2BNS <oh2bns@sral.fi>; Jonathan Naylor G4KLX <g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk>; Kevin Uhlir N0BEL <kevinu@flochart.com> 👑

that’s the whole cute little page, bestie: this is the m6pack(8) manual, written for Linux and dated 20 January 2011 — periodt 💖🎀