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24.Dd January 27, 2005
25.Dt NMDM 4
26.Os
27.Sh NAME
28.Nm nmdm
29.Nd nullmodem terminal driver
30.Sh SYNOPSIS
31.Cd "device nmdm"
32.Sh DESCRIPTION
33The
34.Nm
35driver provides two
36.Xr tty 4
37devices connected
38by a virtual
39.Dq "null modem"
40cable.
41.Pp
42If either of the two tty devices have the
43.Dv CDSR_OFLOW
44bit
45.Pq Dq Li "stty dsrflow"
46set in their line discipline, the
47.Nm
48device will emulate the speed configured in the
49.Xr termios 4
50settings.
51The speed emulation works independently in the two directions,
52controlled by the slower end's termios settings
53.Va ( c_ispeed , c_ospeed ,
54.Dv CS5 ... CS8 , CSTOPB
55and
56.Dv PARENB ) .
57.Sh FILES
58.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/nmdm Ns Ar N Ns Op Pa AB" -compact
59.It Pa /dev/nmdm Ns Ar N Ns Op Pa AB
60nullmodem device nodes.
61Where the
62.Pa A
63node has a matching
64.Pa B
65node.
66.El
67.Pp
68The
69.Nm
70driver implements
71.Dq "on-demand device creation"
72so simply accessing a given instance in
73.Pa /dev
74will create it.
75.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
76None.
77.Sh SEE ALSO
78.Xr stty 1 ,
79.Xr termios 4 ,
80.Xr tty 4
81.Sh HISTORY
82The
83.Nm
84driver first appeared in
85.Fx 4.4 .
86