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6 axports - AX.25 port configuration file.
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9 Axports is an ASCII file that contains information about each of the
10 physical AX.25 ports that are to be used. When dealing with an AX.25
11 utility such as call, it takes an optional argument that is the port
12 name. This port name is a reference to the line within axports, which
13 has that name as its first argument. The information on each line con‐
14 tains enough information to bind the command to a particular physical
15 AX.25 interface, this binding is done by matching the callsign on the
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18 The lines within axports must either be a comment line, which starts
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22 name callsign speed paclen window description
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27 name is the unique identifier of the port. This is the
28 name given as the port argument of many of the
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31 callsign the callsign of the physical interface to bind to.
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33 speed this is the speed of interface, a value of zero
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36 paclen is the default maximum packet size for this inter‐
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39 window the default window size for this interface.
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41 description a free format description of this interface, this
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49 call(1), ax25(4), axparms(8), kissattach(8).
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