Configuring a NetRom interface for tcp/ip is almost identical to configuring an AX.25 interface for tcp/ip.
Again you can either specify the ip address and mtu on the nrattach command line, or use the ifconfig and route commands, but you need to manually add arp entries for hosts you wish to route to because there is no mechanism available for your machine to learn what NetRom address it should use to reach a particular IP host.
So, to create an nr0
device with an IP address of 44.136.8.5
,
an mtu of 512
and configured with the details from the
/etc/ax25/nrports
file for a NetRom port named netrom
you would use:
# /usr/sbin/nrattach -i 44.136.8.5 -m 512 netrom
# route add 44.136.8.5 nr0
or you could use something like the following commands manually:
# ifconfig nr0 44.136.8.5 hw netrom VK2KTJ-9
# route add 44.136.8.5 nr0
Then for each IP host you wish to reach via NetRom you need to set route and
arp entries. To reach a destination host with an IP address of
44.136.80.4
at NetRom address BBS:VK3BBS
via a NetRom
neighbour with callsign VK2SUT-0
you would use commands as follows:
# route add 44.136.80.4 nr0
# arp -t netrom -s 44.136.80.4 vk2sut-0
# nrparms -nodes vk3bbs + BBS 120 6 sl0 vk2sut-0
The `120
' and `6
' arguments to the nrparms command
are the NetRom quality and obsolescence count values for the
route.