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- mode <iface> [vc | datagram]
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- Control the default transmission mode on the specified AX.25
- interface. In datagram mode, IP packets are encapsulated in AX.25 UI
- frames and transmitted without any other link level mechanisms, such
- as connections or acknowledgments.
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- In vc (virtual circuit) mode, IP packets are encapsulated in
- AX.25 I frames and are acknowledged at the link level according to the
- AX.25 protocol. Link level (i.e. AX.25) connections are opened as
- necessary.
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- In both modes, ARP is used to map IP to AX.25 addresses.
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- (Currently not implemented in NOS: the defaults can be overridden
- with the type-of-service (TOS) bits in the IP header. Turning on the
- "reliability" bit causes I frames to be used, while turning on the
- "low delay" bit uses UI frames. The effect of turning on both bits
- is undefined and subject to change.)
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- In both modes, IP-level fragmentation is done if the datagram is
- larger than the interface MTU. In Virtual Circuit mode, however,
- the resulting datagram (or fragments) is further fragmented at the
- AX.25 layer if it (or they) is still larger than the AX.25 <paclen>
- parameter. In AX.25 fragmentation, datagrams are broken into several
- I frames and reassembled at the receiving end before being passed to
- IP. This is preferable to IP fragmentation whenever possible because
- of decreased overhead (the IP header isn't repeated in each
- fragment) and increased robustness (a lost fragment is immediately
- retransmitted by the link layer).
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