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NRBROADCAST(5) Linux Programmer's Manual NRBROADCAST(5)

NAME

nrbroadcast - NET/ROM routing broadcast configuration file.

DESCRIPTION

Nrbroadcast is an ASCII file that contains information about each of the physical AX.25 ports that are to have NET/ROM routing broadcasts transmitted from them.

Each line has the following format, each field being delimited by white space:

port minobs defqual worstqual verbose

The field descriptions are:

the port name of the AX.25 port to broadcast on.
this is the minimum obsolescence count of a routing table entry to be broadcast on this port.
this is the default quality of an incoming routing broadcast from an unknown neighbour.
this is the worst quality node received from a routing broadcast that will be added to our routing table.
whether the routes to all of my nodes in my routing table, or just the nodes resident on my machine are to be broadcast.

FILES

/etc/ax25/nrbroadcast
/etc/ax25/axports

SEE ALSO

call(1), netrom(4), axports(5), netromd(8), nrparms(8).

2 August 1996 Linux