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ax25-utils-030.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Thu Aug 17 21:21:41 1995
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 00:09:41 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Jonathan Naylor <g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk>
Subject: ax25-utils-030.2
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I have just uploaded onto Incoming at sunsite, the latest and greatest
set of AX.25 and NET/ROM utilities for Linux. Since the code to support
these modes has been part of the kernel since 1.3.0, it is only fair that
the support utilities should appear in a more well known location instead
of the dark recesses of the amateur radio ghetto at ftp.ucsd.edu.
These utilities are needed if use is to be made of kernel AX.25 and
NET/ROM under Linux. With the next major AX.25 patch for the kernel
(1.3.19 ?), a change to the method of configuring virtual circuit IP will
make use of these new utilities mandatory. You will also need a set of
the net-tools that understand AX.25 and NET/ROM, unfortunately at this
present time the standard net-tools do not handle NET/ROM correctly so I
have uploaded a modified set of the net-tools onto:
ftp.ucsd.edu:/hamradio/packet/tcpip/incoming/net-tools-1.1.95b.tar.gz
these handle both AX.25 and NET/ROM correctly and have been in use here
for some months without problems.
Here is an extract from the README file from the ax25-utils distribution:
These are the support utilities for the Linux kernel AX.25 and NET/ROM, in
order to fully exploit these facilities you will also need a set of the
net-tools that understand AX.25 and NET/ROM. Unlike the previous releases
of these tools, the utilities, man pages, and configuration files are now
located in /usr/local/{sbin,bin}, /usr/local/man/man* and /usr/local/etc
respectively.
For those familiar with the older ax25 utilities, not much has changed,
hopefully a few bugs have been fixed and some extra functionality has been
added. There is one incompatible change that may affect you, when setting up
an AX.25 port to use virtual circuit IP instead of the default datagram, the
-v flag was used with axattach(8), this is no longer the case. Axattach is
used without the flag, and the mode of operation of the port is now changed
with the axparms(8) program. In line with the previous paragraph, the
location of the configuration files has changed, but not the format. But
please note that the name of the AX.25 configuration file which was simply
called ``ports'' is now named ``axports''.
Almost everything in this distribution is supplied with a man page, this
applies to the file formats as well. These are not enough to replace a good
tutorial on configuring a Linux machine for AX.25 and NET/ROM but I have
supplied my startup shell script which is to be found in the etc
sub-directory. This contains configurations for most things but is not an
exhaustive guide.
The programs can be broken down into three categories:
System Level
------------
axattach Connect an AX.25 interface to a serial port
axparms Configure AX.25 ports
kissparms Configure KISS TNCs
netromd NET/ROM routing
nodesave Save a copy of the NET/ROM routing table
noderest Restore a copy of the NET/ROM routing table
nrparms Configure the NET/ROM interface
rip98d RIP98 IP routing
User Level
----------
beacon Send periodic broadcasts
call Connect via AX.25 or NET/ROM to other stations
listen Monitor traffic
mheard Display the heard list
Examples
--------
axl Listens for incoming conections
pms A simple PMS
No binaries are supplied with this distribution because of the move to ELF,
my machine is still in a.out land and it doesn't take long to compile them
anyway.
And now for the lsm:
Begin3
Title: ax25-utils
Version: 030.2
Entered-date: 13 AUG 95
Description: These are the support utilities required to make use of the
internal AX.25 and NET/ROM which has been included in the
main Linux kernel code since 1.3.0. The ax25-utils are
mostly configuration utilities although a few basic user
level programs are supplied.
Keywords: AX.25
NET/ROM
Amateur Radio
Author: jsn@cs.nott.ac.uk (Jonathan Naylor)
A.Cox@swansea.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
karn@qualcomm.com (Phil Karn)
Maintained-by: jsn@cs.nott.ac.uk (Jonathan Naylor)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/ham/ax25-utils-030.2.tar.gz
Alternate-site:
Original-site:
Platform: Linux with AX.25 and NET/ROM compiled in.
Copying-policy: Most of the code is under the GPL. However some of the code
in the monitoring utility 'listen' is under the KA9Q
copyright. This equates to free use by radio amateurs, so if
you want to use 'listen' commercially, contact Phil Karn.
End
Jonathan G4KLX
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| Part time contractor | Full time student |
| g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk | jsn@cs.nott.ac.uk |
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| Author of Linux kernel AX.25 and NET/ROM. |
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