NAME

       /etc/ax25/axports - AX.25 port configuration file.

DESCRIPTION

       axports  is an ASCII file that contains information about each of the physical AX.25 ports that are to be
       used.  When dealing with an AX.25 utility such as call, it takes an argument that is the port name.  This
       port name is a reference to the line within axports, which has that name  as  its  first  argument.   The
       information  on  each line contains enough information to bind the command to a particular physical AX.25
       interface, this binding is done by matching the callsign on the line in axports with the callsign of  the
       port set by kissattach.

       The  lines  within axports must either be a comment line, which starts with a # in the first column, or a
       port description in the following format, each field being delimited by white space:

              name callsign speed paclen window description

       The field descriptions are:

              name          is the unique identifier of the port.  This is the name given as the  port  argument
                            of  many  of  the  AX.25 support programs.  This is not in any way related to actual
                            device identities, just unique

              callsign      the callsign of the physical interface to bind to.

              speed         this is the speed of interface, a value of zero means that no speed will be  set  by
                            kissattach(8).

              paclen        is the default maximum packet size for this interface.

              window        the default window size for this interface.

              description   a  free  format  description of this interface, this field extends to the end of the
                            line. This field may contain spaces.

FILES

       /etc/ax25/axports

SEE ALSO

       call(1), ax25(4), axparms(8), kissattach(8).

Linux                                              2008-Feb-04                                        AXPORTS(5)