man ax25spy (Commandes) - replacement for listen(8) and demo client for the ax25spyd(8) daemon

NAME

ax25spy - replacement for listen(8) and demo client for the ax25spyd(8) daemon

SYNOPSIS

ax25spy [-options]

DESCRIPTION

ax25spy (someday it will be written) ...

OPTIONS

-b
black and white (non-colour-mode) (-d -M and -m are always b/w)
-c
shows all call-sepcific mheard-data. You can use -v and -F here
-d
starts dx-cluster-spy-mode
-f
writes all received ax.25 data to the file /var/lib/ax25/ax25spy. The file contains the raw ax.25 data, as received from the kernel. Each packet is preceeded with an (int size). If the file could not be opend/created ax25spy will be aborted.
-F filterexpression
shows only those ax.25 packets, which header contain filterexpression as substring (doesn't work yet). In connection with -m or -q it shows only the data of calls, which contain filterexpression (The Filterexpression is casesensitive!)
-I
shows only ax.25 packets with infofield (I and UI)
-m
shows the global mheard-data
-n
???
-N
shows all new QSO detected
-p
shows only frames, which contain IP
-q
shows all qso-sepcific mheard-data. You can use -v and -F here.
-Q
be quiet
-s
starts spy, requires -F for selection. You can give a call, part of a call (in uppercase) or a qsoid with -F. you can see all QSOid using -qv Example: ax25spy -s -F DG9EP or ax25spy -s -F 23
-S <qsoid>
starts spy on qso with id <qsoid>
-t
shows the timestamp of the packet
-T
shows only the header of ax.25 packets and the header of embedded protocols but without any data
-v
be more verbose
-V
shows the version of the program

EXAMPLES

ax25spy ax25spy -c ax25spy -m ax25spy -q ax25spy -qv ax25spy -q -v -F DB0IZ ax25spy -s -F DG9EP

NOTES

You may want to use the watch command with ax25spy -m or ax25spy -q

AUTHOR

Walter Koch, dg9ep <walter@linkt.de> (based on the listen(1)-code)