i4bisppp4

Usage

Overview

The i4bisppp driver interfaces the IP subsystem of the operating system with the isdn4bsd package so that a transport of IP packets over an ISDN link is possible.

The driver is just a glue layer between the sppp(4) backend and the ISDN4BSD package and needs the sppp(4) driver configured into the kernel.

The network interfaces provided by this driver are named isp<n>, where <n> is a number between 0 and count-1 from the kernel config line.

For configuration of the i4bsppp driver, either the spppcontrol(8) utility is used or the driver can be configured via isdnd(8) and its associated isdnd.rc(5) file.

In case an IP packet for a remote side arrives in the driver and no connection is established yet, the driver communicates with the isdnd(8) daemon to establish a connection.

The driver has support for interfacing to the bpf(4) subsystem for using tcpdump(1) with the isp interfaces.

LINK0 and LINK1

The link0 and link1 flags given as parameters to ifconfig(8) have the following meaning for the isp<n> devices:

link0

wait passively for connection

link1

auto-dial on output

The link0 and link1 flags are set to off by default.

See sppp(4) for a more detailed discussion of the flags.