1ROSE(4) Linux Programmer's Manual ROSE(4)
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6 AF_ROSE - Rose amateur packet radio protocol family
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9 Rose is a protocol used extensively by radio amateurs. The Linux Rose
10 protocol family permits access to these protocols via the standard net‐
11 working socket metaphor.
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13 The Rose protocol layer only supports connected mode.
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15 The only mode of operation is connected mode which is the mode used for
16 a socket of type SOCK_SEQPACKET (stream sockets are not available in
17 Rose). This requires that the user ensures output data is suitably
18 packetised, and that input data is read a packet at a time into a buf‐
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21 Rose addresses consist of 10 digits. These are encoded into a sock‐
22 addr_rose structure which is provided to the relevant system calls.
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24 Rose has some unusual properties. Notably in a multi-user system an
25 AX.25 address is often associated with a user, and some users may not
26 have such an association. a set of ioctl calls are provided to manage
27 an association table.
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29 Rose supports the following socket options for SOL_ROSE. ROSE_T1 is the
30 T11/T21 timer in 1/10ths of a second, ROSE_T2 is the T12/T22 timer in
31 1/10ths of a second. ROSE_T3, is the T13/T23 timer in 1/10ths of a sec‐
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33 return the Rose header as well as the application data, this is done
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41 Jonathan Naylor G4KLX <g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk>
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