RSUPLNK(8)

🌸 NAME — rsuplnk(8) 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to the rsuplnk(8) page from the Linux Programmer's Manual. This little icon is literally named rsuplnk, and its whole thing is: user entry into the ROSE network. That's the vibe. ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

rsuplnk [-q] <port>

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

rsuplnk is your little doorway into the ROSE network, using the standard pseudo-digipeating method — that's the established trick, iykyk. Recent Linux kernels know about this style of operation, and ax25d can listen for those connections. 🫶

A ROSE switch normally does one ROSE address (ie port) per physical AX.25 port. So when ROSE users show up on a given AX.25 port, they look like they're coming from the ROSE port tied to it. That's exactly why rsuplnk needs a ROSE port as its argument — not random, it's the whole point. argument era 💅

To use rsuplnk you need an entry in ax25d.conf that listens for incoming connections. In the example below, I'm listening for ROSE connections on my AX.25 port 144, with callsign KE4GAJ-10, and the ROSE port associated with that AX.25 port is rs144. Obsessed with specificity. 🎀

#
[KE4GAJ-10* VIA 144]
NOCALL  * * * * * * L
default * * * * * * - root /usr/sbin/rsuplnk rsuplnk rs144
#

One rsuplnk per user access AX.25 port would be typical. The matching program for exiting a ROSE network is rsdwnlnk. Cute pair, honestly. 🌈

Every error rsuplnk generates goes to the system debug log file. Receipts in the debug log, bestie. 💀

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -q — quiets the messages rsuplnk makes while it's making the connection. If you want less chatter, this is your girl. 🙈

🍓 FILES 🍓

• /etc/ax25/rsports

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

rose(4), ax25d.conf(5), ax25d(8), rsdwnlnk(8), rose_call(8).

👑 AUTHOR 👑

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

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that's the whole page, bestie — Linux, 29 April 1997, RSUPLNK(8) realness. mwah 💋