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6 m6pack - Attach multiples 6PACK interfaces
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9 m6pack [-l] [-s speed] [-x n_ptmx] [-v] ttyinterface pty ..
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12 m6pack allows multiple 6PACK TNCs sharing the same serial port to be
13 used with the Linux AX.25 kernel software. The AX.25 softare has no
14 support for multiple TNCs sharing the same serial line. The different
15 ports are addressed by encoding the port number in the control byte of
16 every 6pack frame. m6pack watches a serial port, and routes 6pack
17 frames to/from the pseudo ttys. The other side of the pseudo ttys are
18 then attached with spattach as normal.
19 Statistics about the operation of m6pack may be obtained by sending the
21 SIGUSR1 signal to the running program. On reception of such a signal
22 m6pack will print a set of statistics to the system log if logging has
23 been enabled.
24 Although mention is made of using pseudo ttys as the last arguments,
26 these devices may be normal serial ports. However m6pack provides no
27 way in which to set their speed, the speed must therefore be set by
28 some other method.
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31 -l Enables system logging, the default is off.
32 -s speed Set the speed of the serial port.
34 -v Display the version.
36 -x number This option is for Unix98 PTYs. It allocates "number" ptys;
38 their names are written to stdout. When -x is used, the pty
39 arguments are optional.
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42 spattach(8), ifconfig(8), kill(1).
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45 Iñaki Arenaza EB2EBU <iarenaza@escomposlinux.org>, based in the work
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47 Tomi Manninen OH2BNS <oh2bns@sral.fi>
48 Jonathan Naylor G4KLX <g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk>
49 Kevin Uhlir N0BEL <kevinu@flochart.com>
50Linux 28 April 2002 M6PACK(8)