NAME¶
m6pack - Attach multiples 6PACK interfaces
SYNOPSIS¶
m6pack [-l] [-s speed] [-x n_ptmx] [-v] ttyinterface pty ..
DESCRIPTION¶
m6pack allows multiple 6PACK TNCs sharing the same serial port to be used
with the Linux AX.25 kernel software. The AX.25 softare 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 are then attached with
spattach as normal.
Statistics about the operation of
m6pack may be obtained 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, 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¶
Iñaki 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>
