npm-pppmgr.so

Provide IP-to-PPP services

Syntax:

io-net ... -p pppmgr ...

Options:

None.

Description:

The npm-pppmgr.so shared object provides IP-to-PPP services. If you use pppd, you'll need to load npm-pppmgr.so.

When npm-pppmgr.so is loaded, you can get information related to the amount of data transmitted and received, and the number of transmission or receiving errors. For example:

cat /dev/socket/pppmgr

ppp0:
-----

Bytes Received:     58990
Bytes Sent:         57735
Packets Received:   95
Packets Sent:       79
Receive Errors:     0
Send Errors:        0

Examples:

io-net -p pppmgr

Files:

/dev/io-net

The directory where, by default, drivers and protocol modules add entries. For more information, the documentation for io-net.

See also:

io-net, pppd

"Network protocol modules (npm-*)" in the Utilities Summary