From bee3ed95da5f252caae391d51d3c4a0f210e14eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Osterried Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:50:39 +0000 Subject: - documentation (ax25rtd.8, ax25rtd.conf.5, ax25rtctl.8) - new feature: advanced routing option --- ax25rtd/ax25rtd.8 | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ax25rtd/ax25rtd.8 (limited to 'ax25rtd/ax25rtd.8') diff --git a/ax25rtd/ax25rtd.8 b/ax25rtd/ax25rtd.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c765358 --- /dev/null +++ b/ax25rtd/ax25rtd.8 @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +.TH AX25RTD 8 "11 November 2003" Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +ax25rtd \- AX.25 routing daemon +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B ax25rtd +.SH DESCRIPTION +.LP +.B ax25rtd +is a daemon that: +.LP +- emulates the ceased "autorouter" of Linux Kernel AX.25 +.br +- sets up ARP entries automagically +.br +- may adjust IP routes and encapsulation mode + (although I really do not recomment to use this feature...) +.LP +The "autorouter" is not really an autorouter. It just listens to the AX.25 +traffic on your ports and uses this information to setup AX.25 routes. This +can be turned on or off by altering the configuration file +/etc/ax25/ax25rtd.conf. +.LP +Ax25rtd provides a socket /var/ax25/ax25rtd/control which is used for +runtime maintainance through +.B ax25rtctl +or to set up new routes by other +daemons (a Flexnet router, perhaps?) +.LP +On startup ax25rtd reads the configuration file and afterwards preloads +the caches from the files /var/ax25/ax25rtd/ax25_routes and +/var/ax25/ax25rtd/ip_routes. On SIGTERM or +.B ax25rtctl --save +it saves the caches to those files. +.SH FILES +/etc/ax25/ax25rtd.conf +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR ax25rtd.conf (5), +.BR ax25rtctl (8). +.LP +.SH AUTHORS +.nf +Jörg Reuter +.br +Llaus Kudielka OE1KIB +.fi -- cgit v1.2.3