NAME
pppob - Barry Project’s program to access the Blackberry modem for pppd
SYNOPSIS
pppob [-l filename][-p pin][-P password][-s][-v]
DESCRIPTION
pppob is a program suitable for use in pppd’s pty option file. It
talks to an available Blackberry and provides modem access on stdin and
stdout.
OPTIONS
-l filename
Causes verbose debug output from the -v switch to be written to
filename instead of stderr.
-p pin PIN of device to talk with. Only needed if you have more than
one Blackberry connected at once.
-P password
Simplistic method to specify device password. In a real
application, this would be done using a more secure prompt.
-s Use Serial mode instead of the default IpModem mode. Older
Blackberries used a serial mode based on a similar protocol to
what database access uses for retrieving data. Each packet had
a size and socket number prepended to the actual modem data.
Newer Blackberries have dedicated USB endpoints that behave as
read/write points, and do not bother with this size/socket
format, and therefore transfer less data across the USB bus. By
default, pppob tries to use IpModem mode if proper endpoints are
detected, and otherwise falls back to Serial mode. This switch
skips IpModem mode entirely and tries Serial mode immediately.
-v Dump verbose protocol data to stderr during operation.
AUTHOR
pppob is part of the Barry project.
SEE ALSO
http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry/index.php
May 29, 2008