patty AX.25 stack

NAME pattyd AX.25 userland stack daemon

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION pattyd provides an AX.25 userland stack daemon which can be used to communicate with other hosts via KISS interfaces. AX.25-based sockets are created and controlled by clients with remote calls to pattyd via a Unix domain socket. Clients, in this sense, are akin to userland code, whereas pattyd would correspond to a kernel networking stack, and the Unix domain socket would be the system call interface. Access to AX.25 sockets is provided via the pty(4) driver, which provides a convenient means of interfacing existing and new software with AX.25.

By default, pattyd will search for daemon settings, network interface descriptions, and routes to instantiate in pattyd.conf(5).

The options are as follows:

• -f Run daemon in foreground.
• -c pattyd.conf Specify a configuration file to load. When this option is not specified, the default configuration file is /etc/patty/pattyd.conf.
• -s patty.sock MYCALL /dev/ttyXYZ [tioarg ...] Run in standalone mode, without requiring a configuration file. In this mode, a single interface, kiss0, is created, with address MYCALL, using /dev/ttyXYZ as a KISS interface, and zero or more optional [tioarg ...] given to specify baud rate or flow control. Valid settings are: 1200, 9600, crtscts, xonxoff.