.TH NET2KISS 8 "15 January 2009" "" ""
.SH NAME
net2kiss \- convert a network AX.25 driver to a KISS stream on a pseudo-tty
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B "net2kiss [-sfzva] [-i ifname] ptyname"
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B net2kiss
takes AX.25 packets from an AX.25 kernel network interface and converts them
into a KISS data stream via a pseudo-tty.
.SH PARAMETERS
.TP
.B ptyname
specifies the path to the pseudo-tty. If you use the special name "/dev/ptmx", then a Unix98-PTY pair is used; the pty name is written to stdout.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B "\-i ifname"
specifies the name of the kernel AX.25 network interface. The default
is bc0.
.TP
.B \-s
tells net2kiss to search by itself for a free pseudoterminal, open the
master side and create a symlink named by -p to the slave side.
.TP
.B \-f
can be used in conjunction with -s to force the creation of the symlink
even if the target file does already exist. *DANGEROUS*
.TP
.B \-v
Verbose output. Displays error messages during operation and decoded
packets to stdout.
.TP
.B \-z
put the network interface into promiscious mode.
.TP
.B \-a
receive every packet instead of only AX.25 from the kernel AX.25 network
interface.
.SH BUGS
None known.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ifconfig (8),
.BR kissattach (8).
.SH AUTHORS
Thomas M. Sailer, HB9JNX/AE4WA, <t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch>