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Configuring servald
===================
[Serval Project][], April 2013
The examples in this document are [Bourne shell][] commands, using standard
quoting and variable expansion. Commands issued by the user are prefixed with
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of the real system interfaces using the [fnmatch(3)][] standard library
function. If any PATTERN matches, then the rule's `exclude` option is checked:
if true, then the interface is not activated, otherwise a socket on that system
interface is opened and the interface's `socket_type` is set to `dgram` (it is
an error to configure it otherwise).
interface is opened and the interface's `socket_type` is set to `dgram`. (It
is invalid to explicitly set `socket_type` to other than `dgram` for a match
interface.)
If a rule specifies a `file` path, then an interface is created *if the given
file exists*. The interface's `socket_type` determines how the file is written
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interfaces which have a fixed packet size (the [IEEE 802.11][] [MTU][])
over the air;
* `single` sends each MDP packet on its own to the socket using [SLIP][]
encoding, and is suited to with a variable packet size on the air (eg, a
serial connection to a [packet radio][] modem).
encoding, and is suited to data links with a variable packet size on the
air (eg, a serial connection to a [packet radio][] modem).
The `default_route` option, if true, causes all MDP packets with an unresolved
recipient address (SID) to be sent to this interface instead of just dropped.
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unless there is traffic explicitly sent to it).
[Serval Project]: http://www.servalproject.org/
[Serval Infrastructure]: ./Serval-Infrastructure.md
[Bourne shell]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell
[shell wildcard]: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man7/glob.7.html