ax25spy1

Usage

Overview

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