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authorThomas Osterried <thomas@osterried.de>2008-10-11 08:27:03 +0000
committerThomas Osterried <thomas@osterried.de>2008-10-11 08:27:03 +0000
commit7a6b317d093b120c8aa38e9abb47d60b61b1fe1d (patch)
treecbe663f2e3847554b7696b1a194c8b23eb5dea49 /ax25ipd/ax25ipd.conf
parentbc56cf90127cca5c8713fe1f6f26134682dfe56b (diff)
Support for unix98 ptys ("/dev/ptmx"). Thanks to dk2crn.
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diff --git a/ax25ipd/ax25ipd.conf b/ax25ipd/ax25ipd.conf
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--- a/ax25ipd/ax25ipd.conf
+++ b/ax25ipd/ax25ipd.conf
@@ -41,11 +41,17 @@ mode tnc
# make sure you set a mycall above, or say axparms foobar -setcall te1st
# note: the device will be up when you assign an ip address
# _after_ starting ax25rtd (which initializes the device), start ax25d
-# with bpqether or pty, you do not need to care abt the speed
+# with bpqether or pty, you do not need to care about the speed
# tun/tap: as descriped in /usr/src/linux/Documentatioa/networking/tuntap.txt,
# make a device # like this:
# crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 200 Nov 26 13:32 tun
# with the command mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200
+# As serial port, you could assign physical ports like ttyS0 or ptys.
+# ax25ipd supports BSD-style pseudo-terminals as well as the Unix98 pty's.
+# If the tty argument is "/dev/ptmx", then Unix98 behaviour
+# will automaticaly take effekt. With Unix98 pty's, the slave tty name
+# could not be forseen. That's why kissattach will print the corresponding
+# slave pty name as a separate line on stdout.
#
#device ampr
device /dev/ttyp0