NAME

       ax25rtd - AX.25 routing daemon

SYNOPSIS

       ax25rtd

DESCRIPTION

       ax25rtd is a daemon that:

       - emulates the ceased "autorouter" of Linux Kernel AX.25
       - sets up ARP entries automagically
       - may adjust IP routes and encapsulation mode
         (although I really do not recommend to use this feature...)

       The "autorouter" is not really an autorouter. It just listens to the AX.25 traffic on your ports and uses
       this  information  to setup AX.25 routes. This can be turned on or off by altering the configuration file
       /etc/ax25/ax25rtd.conf.

       Ax25rtd provides a socket  /var/ax25/ax25rtd/control  which  is  used  for  runtime  maintenance  through
       ax25rtctl or to set up new routes by other daemons (a Flexnet router, perhaps?)

       On  startup  ax25rtd  reads  the  configuration  file  and  afterwards preloads the caches from the files
       /var/ax25/ax25rtd/ax25_route and /var/ax25/ax25rtd/ip_route. On SIGTERM or ax25rtctl --save it saves  the
       caches to those files.

FILES

       /etc/ax25/ax25rtd.conf
       /var/ax25/ax25rtd/ax25_route
       /var/ax25/ax25rtd/control
       /etc/iproute/rt_tables
       /etc/iproute2/rt_protos

SEE ALSO

       ax25rtd.conf(5), ax25rtctl(8).

AUTHORS

       Joerg Reuter <jreuter@poboxes.com>
       Klaus Kudielka OE1KIB

Linux                                           11 November 2003                                      AX25RTD(8)