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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2010-01-13 02:48:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2010-01-13 02:48:06 +0000 |
| commit | 19178965f484ddc11eabf098ba4d436a5d7c684d (patch) | |
| tree | 8d792367b6f76c86274fae66c6d3a05aa13580bb /gps.xml | |
| parent | 28744833f7d899bdb110de593a3bfed003a503b7 (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-19178965f484ddc11eabf098ba4d436a5d7c684d.tar.gz | |
Improved client argument parsing to recognize IPv6 addresses...
...and do the right thing with suffixes. Teach the client library to
connect using IPv6 when appropriate.
Diffstat (limited to 'gps.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | gps.xml | 37 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -153,11 +153,38 @@ altitude and error estimates, kiliometers per hour in speeds). </para> level; it is primarily for use by GPSD developers. It enables various progress messages to standard error.</para> -<para>An optional argument to any client may specify a server to get -data from; a colon-separated suffix is taken as a port number. If -there is a second colon-separated suffix, that is taken as a device -name to be handed to the daemon in an F= command (or -equivalent).</para> +<para>By default, clients collect data from all compatible devices on +localhost, using the defalt GPSD port 2947. An optional argument to any +client may specify a server to get data from. A colon-separated suffix +is taken as a port number. If there is a second colon-separated +suffix, that is taken as a specific device name to be +watched. However, if the server specification contains square +brackets, the part inside them is taken as an IPv6 address and +port/device suffixes are obnly parsed after the trailing bracket. +Possible cases look like this:</para> + +<variablelist> +<varlistentry> +<term>localhost:/dev/ttyS1</term> +<listitem><para>Look at the default port of localhost, trying both +IPv4 and IPv6 and watching ouput from serial device 1.</para></listitem> +</varlistentry> +<varlistentry> +<term>example.com:2317</term> +<listitem><para>Look at port 2317 on example.com, trying both +IPv4 and IPv6.</para></listitem> +</varlistentry> +<varlistentry> +<term>71.162.241.5:2317:/dev/ttyS3</term> +<listitem><para>Look at port 2317 at the specified IPv4 +address, collecting data from attached serial device 3.</para></listitem> +</varlistentry> +<varlistentry> +<term>[FEDC:BA98:7654:3210:FEDC:BA98:7654:3210]:2317:/dev/ttyS5</term> +<listitem><para>Look at port 2317 at the specified IPv6 +address, collecting data from attached serial device 5.</para></listitem> +</varlistentry> +</variablelist> <para>Not all clients shipped with GPSD are documented here. See also the separate manual pages for |