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 discon-
    nected.

    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

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 con-
    figuration 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