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.TH KISSNETD 8 "13 October 1996" Linux "Linux System Managers Manual"
.SH NAME
kissnetd \- Create a virtual network.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B kissnetd [-f size] [-v] [-p <num> | tty... ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
.B Kissnetd
allows the creation of a virtual network of AX.25 systems that use the KISS
protocol. Each tty named on the command line is opened and any KISS frames
received on tty is copied to the other ttys. This allows a number of AX.25
systems to share the same packets.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP 10
.BI "\-p num"
Automaticaly allocate num Unix98 slave pty's via /dev/ptmx.
These are written to stdout and could be parsed by your startup scripts.
.TP 10
.BI "\-f size"
This sets the maximum KISS frame size that the program will handle. The
default is 512 bytes which will be adequate under most circumstances.
.TP 10
.BI \-v
Enables verbose mode, tracing of data passed is sent to standard output.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR kissattach (8),
.BR kissparms (8),
.BR mkiss (8).
.SH AUTHOR
Frederic Rible F1OAT <frible@teaser.fr>