RSDWNLNK(8)

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💖 RSDWNLNK — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is rsdwnlnk from section 8 of the Linux Programmer's Manual, and it's literally the "user exit from the ROSE network" girlie. yes that's the NAME. no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

rsdwnlnk <port> <call>

two args, that's it, we keep it cute and minimal 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so the rdwnplnk program lets a user leave the ROSE network using the standard pseudo-digipeating method. (yes bestie, the original spells it rdwnplnk right there in the description — not me, not my typo, we're keeping it, periodt.)

Recent Linux kernels are aware of this form of operation and the ax25d program can create such connections. the way that a ROSE switch normally works is that you get one ROSE address (ie port) per physical AX.25 port. so like, ROSE users coming in on a given ROSE port will come out of the associated AX.25 port. that's the whole vibe. 🔥

To use rsdwnlnk you need an entry in ax25d.conf to listen for incoming ROSE connections to any callsigns that are not matched by the more specific ROSE entries. In the example below, I will be listening for ROSE connections on my ROSE port rs144, the exiting AX.25 connection will be via the associated AX.25 port, 144, using the callsign KE4GAJ-10.

⚠️ bestie pls note: the callsign should be on the same line as the rest of the command — it may be wrapped onto the next line on your screen. don't let the terminal gaslight you 🫶
#
{* VIA rs144}
NOCALL  * * * * * * L
default * * * * * * - root /usr/sbin/rsdwnlnk rsdwnlnk 144 KE4GAJ-10
#

There would typically be one rsdwnlnk per ROSE port. The associated program for entering a ROSE network is rsuplnk. (yes they're a matching set, the duo, the iconic pair 👑)

All errors generated by rsdwnlnk are written to the system debug log file. so if something goes sideways, that's where you go looking. 💀

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /etc/ax25/axports

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Jonathan Naylor G4KLX <g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk>

and that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋 — this one's from the Linux Programmer's Manual, dated 29 April 1997, and the page itself is RSDWNLNK(8). old school but still slaying ✨🦋

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