1PPPOB(1) General Commands Manual PPPOB(1)
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6 pppob - Barry Project's program to access the Blackberry modem for pppd
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9 pppob [-l filename][-p pin][-P password][-s][-t][-v]
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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
14 stdout.
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17 -l filename
18 Causes verbose debug output from the -v switch to be written to
19 filename instead of stderr.
20 -p pin PIN of device to talk with. Only needed if you have more than
22 one Blackberry connected at once.
23 -P password
25 Simplistic method to specify device password. In a real appli‐
26 cation, this would be done using a more secure prompt.
27 -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.
38 -t Creates a pty for communication, instead of using stdin and std‐
40 out; and prints the filename of the pty on stdout.
41 -v Dump verbose protocol data to stderr during operation.
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46 pppob is part of the Barry project.
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49 http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry
50 July 7, 2012 PPPOB(1)