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authorThomas Osterried <thomas@osterried.de>2005-11-28 20:13:21 +0000
committerThomas Osterried <thomas@osterried.de>2005-11-28 20:13:21 +0000
commit88538c36bafd014c2f39793f0cf5c4359c740bd6 (patch)
tree844bfe9daf199dbf284fe288fc4d7ee0423d5a8e /kiss/kissattach.8
parentb9a80e70ad68879909f8c2fe5edf605f5f4cbec4 (diff)
- IP Address not mandatory anymore
- New -b option. IFF_BROADCAST disabled by default now.
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@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
.SH NAME
kissattach, spattach \- Attach a KISS or 6PACK interface
.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B kissattach [-6] [-l] [-m mtu] [-v] tty port inetaddr
+.B kissattach [-b] [-6] [-l] [-m mtu] [-v] tty port [inetaddr]
.sp
-.B spattach [-i inetaddr] [-l] [-m mtu] [-v] tty port
+.B spattach [-b] [-l] [-m mtu] [-v] tty port [inetaddr]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
Attach a KISS or a 6PACK interface to what is normally a tty line connected
@@ -23,9 +23,10 @@ TNC attached, although it could be a pseudo tty or a KISS port emulator such as
an SCC card. The port arguments is the name of a port as given in the
axports(5) file.
.LP
-The inetaddr argument is the IP address of the new interface. This is now a
-mandatory argument although due to historical reasons this restriction is
-lifted if the old -i option is used.
+The inetaddr argument is the IP address of the new interface. Some time it
+was mandatory argument (although due to historical reasons this restriction is
+lifted if the old -i option is used). But there's really not a need for
+the interface to have an IP address assigned to.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP 16
.BI "\-6"
@@ -40,6 +41,10 @@ the program will complain about it, though still work.
.BI \-l
Log messages to the system log, the default is not to.
.TP 16
+.BI \-b
+Allow broadcasts on the interface (default no - because for e.g. samba
+broadcasts are a pain..)
+.TP 16
.BI "\-m mtu"
Sets the mtu of the interface. If this value is not given then the value is
taken from the paclen parameter in axports.