Re: Questions re pseudo-ports

From: Richard Adams (jbbp.yoih@whitworth.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 07 2000 - 07:41:12 EET

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    On Wed, 06 Dec 2000, John Ackermann wrote:
    > I have two questions relating to using logical, or virtual, or pseudo
    > KISS TNC ports.
    >
    > First, the dmascc driver creates only a network interface, and it does not
    > seem possible to associate this interface with an AX.25 port -- if you
    > try to put "dmascc0" in axports, it barfs, and I see no obvious way to
    > attach a port to a dmascc device. What I've done to get around this is use
    > net2kiss to attach dmascc0 to one end of a pty pair, and then kissattach
    > to associate a KISS axport to the other end. This results in a KISS
    > interface that applications can talk to, but creates two unused network
    > devices and seems kludgy. Is there a better way to associate a KISS
    > interface to a network device?

    Unless i am much mistaken try "scc0" in axports.
    Then use ifconfig to up the interface.

    > Thanks!
    >
    > John N8UR
    > terhi.victor@logonet.com
    > 

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Regards Richard
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