NAME
ibod - ISDN MPPP bandwidth on demand daemon
SYNOPSIS
ibod
DESCRIPTION
Ibod is a ISDN MPPP bandwidth on demand
daemon designed to operate in conjunction with isdn4linux.
It is normally started at boot time, but can be started and stopped
at any time. The program monitors inbound and outbound traffic on
the ISDN interface. When the required bandwidth exceeds the
capacity for one IDSN B-channel (64kbps) a second (slave) channel
is connected according to the MPPP protocol. When the traffic
decreases below one channel capacity, the slave channel is
disconnected.
A configuration file /etc/ppp/ibod.cf is read initially.
The device /dev/isdninfo is monitored for the current state
and throughput of the ISDN interface. All operation on the ISDN
interface is made through the /dev/isdnctrl interface.
Ibod is also listening on TCP port 6050 for eventual
connection from control panel BSD ibod(1).
SIGNALS
Upon receiving SIGHUP, the configuration file is
re-read. A SIGPIPE closes an eventual socket connection with
xibod.
ENVIRONMENT
Variable IBOD_HOME specifies the
directory where to look for the configuration file ibod.cf.
DIAGNOSTICS
All logging is made to syslog with the identity
tag ibod.
SEE ALSO
ibod.cf(4)
and xibod(1)
AUTHOR
Bjoern Smith, Smith@Compound.SE