ISDN Tool Help

# Help for the ISDN configuration and dialup tool

## Contents

- Introduction
- How to configure ISDN Tool
- How to use ISDN Tool
- Notes
- Changes
- TODO-List
- Authors

## Introduction

ISDN Tool is an ISDN monitoring and configuring tool that allows observation of the traffic on 2 channels and configuration of the ISDN interfaces ipppX in a convenient way (frontend to the `isdn4linux` package).

## How to use ISDN Tool

Monitoring:

ISDN Tool has several LEDs to tell you the activity of your ISDN card.

- There are two horizontal levelmeters, the lower one shows the throughput of transmitted data (the data, your computer is sending); the upper one, shows the throughput of received data.
- Orange flashing levelmeters tell you, that you are currently dialing out with your ISDN card.
- A green dot tells you, whether you are currently connected, or not.

Dialup:

Just configure the correct paths for `ipppd` and `isdnctrl`, set up your account information and press "connect".
If the levelmeters begin to flash in an orange color, your ISDN card dials and a connection will hopefully be established.

## Notes

2.1.x Kernels:

The current version of ISDN Tool only works properly on Linux 2.0.x kernels, support for 2.1.x to come in the very next full release. ISDN Tool makes use of `/dev/isdninfo` and `/proc/net/dev` (the latter was changed with 2.1.x kernels which is the reason for non-working Levelmeters), so these special files should be available on your system for ISDN Tool to work.
We suppose there are not so many users running 2.1.x kernels, so this incompatibility shouldn't be too severe (correct us if we're wrong :-)

isdn4linux:

In order to get ISDN Tool running on your box, you need the `isdn4k-utils` package available from ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux.

isdnlog/isdnrep:

Support is planned for further versions of ISDN Tool. The current version ('snapshot') already contains a part of the dialogues.
For ftp see above (isdn4linux).

Driver module support:

Plans are to support driver module loading, dialogue design has already started.

General:

This is still a preview release, so don't expect too much. I think we'll reach a useable, but maybe slightly unstable stage in spring '98; in the meantime further preview releases (0.2.x) will be released.

## Changes

Version 0.2.4:

- Load and Save of Account information
- Redial on busy
- Documentation written
- Switched to QString
- New throughput monitor, new icons
- Bugfixes

Version 0.2.3:

- Added dialog for ISDN-configuration
- Prepared accounting
- Bugfixes

## TODO-List

- Complete documentation
- Support of `isdnlog`
- Integration of monitor in the panel
- Integration of kppp and ISDN Tool

## Authors

ISDN Tool is written by Thorsten Westheider, with some help of Carsten Pfeiffer.

###### This document has been written on 12/23/1997 for ISDN Tool Version 0.2.4.