.Dd $Mdocdate$
.Dt PATTYD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm pattyd
.Nd AX.25 userland stack daemon
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl f
.Op Fl c Ar pattyd.conf
.Nm
.Fl s Ar patty.sock MYCALL /dev/ttyXYZ Op tioarg ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
provides an AX.25 userland stack daemon which can be used to communicate with
other hosts via KISS interfaces.  AX.25-based sockets are created and
controlled by clients with remote calls to
.Nm
via a Unix domain socket.  Clients, in this sense, are akin to userland code,
whereas
.Nm
would correspond to a kernel networking stack, and the Unix domain socket would
be the system call interface.  Access to AX.25 sockets is provided via the
.Xr pty 4
driver, which provides a convenient means of interfacing existing and new
software with AX.25.
.Pp
By default,
.Nm
will search for daemon settings, network interface descriptions, and routes to
instantiate in
.Xr pattyd.conf 5 .
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl f
Run daemon in foreground.
.It Fl c Ar pattyd.conf
Specify a configuration file to load.  When this option is not specified, the
default configuration file is
.Pa /etc/patty/pattyd.conf .
.It Fl s Ar patty.sock MYCALL /dev/ttyXYZ Op tioarg ...
Run in standalone mode, without requiring a configuration file.  In this mode,
a single interface,
.Li kiss0 ,
is created, with address
.Ar MYCALL ,
using
.Ar /dev/ttyXYZ
as a KISS interface, and zero or more optional
.Op tioarg ...
given to specify baud rate or flow control.  Valid settings are:
.Li 1200 , 9600 , crtscts , xonxoff .
.El
.Sh AUTHORS
.An XANTRONIX Development Aq Mt dev@xantronix.com