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NAME

6       pppob - Barry Project's program to access the Blackberry modem for pppd
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SYNOPSIS

9       pppob [-l filename][-p pin][-P password][-s][-v]
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DESCRIPTION

12       pppob  is  a  program  suitable  for use in pppd's pty option file.  It
13       talks to an available Blackberry and provides modem access on stdin and
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OPTIONS

17       -l filename
18              Causes  verbose debug output from the -v switch to be written to
19              filename instead of stderr.
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21       -p pin PIN of device to talk with.  Only needed if you have  more  than
22              one Blackberry connected at once.
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24       -P password
25              Simplistic  method to specify device password.  In a real appli‐
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28       -s     Use Serial mode instead of  the  default  IpModem  mode.   Older
29              Blackberries  used  a serial mode based on a similar protocol to
30              what database access uses for retrieving data.  Each packet  had
31              a  size  and  socket  number prepended to the actual modem data.
32              Newer Blackberries have dedicated USB endpoints that  behave  as
33              read/write  points, and do not bother with this size/socket for‐
34              mat, and therefore transfer less data across the  USB  bus.   By
35              default, pppob tries to use IpModem mode if proper endpoints are
36              detected, and otherwise falls back to Serial mode.  This  switch
37              skips IpModem mode entirely and tries Serial mode immediately.
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39       -v     Dump verbose protocol data to stderr during operation.
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AUTHOR

43       pppob is part of the Barry project.
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SEE ALSO

46       http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry
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51                                 May 29, 2008                         PPPOB(1)