NAME¶

xl2tpd - Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol Daemon

DESCRIPTION¶

A Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol VPN client/daemon for Linux and other POSIX-based OSs. Based off of L2TPd 0.61 from
http://www.marko.net/l2tp and patches collected by Jacco de Leeuw at
http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/openswan-l2tp.html Currently maintained by Xelerance
http://www.xelerance.com/software/xl2tpd/ xl2tpd implements the Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol, defined by RFC 2661.

OPTIONS¶

-D

This option prevents xl2tpd from detaching from the terminal and daemonizing.

 

-c <config file>

Tells xl2tpd to use an alternate config file. Default is /etc/xl2tpd/xl2tpd.conf. Fallback configuration file is /etc/l2tpd/l2tpd.conf

 

-s <secret file>

Tells xl2tpd to use an alternate "secrets" file. Default is /etc/xl2tpd/l2tp-secrets

 

-p <pid file>

Tells xl2tpd to use an alternate pid file. Default is /var/run/xl2tpd/xl2tpd.pid

 

-C <control file>

Tells xl2tpd to use an alternate control file. Default is /var/run/xl2tpd/l2tp-control

 

 

FILES¶

/etc/xl2tpd/xl2tpd.conf /etc/xl2tpd/l2tp-secrets /var/run/l2tp-control

BUGS¶

Please address bugs and comment to xl2tpd-dev@xelerance.com

SEE ALSO¶

xl2tpd.conf(5)

AUTHORS¶

Forked from l2tpd by Xelerance (http://www.xelerance.com/software/xl2tpd/ Michael Richardson <mcr@xelerance.com> Paul Wouters <paul@xelerance.com> Many thanks to Jacco de Leeuw <jacco2@dds.nl> for maintaining l2tpd. Previous development was hosted at sourceforge (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/l2tpd) by: Scott Balmos <sbalmos@iglou.com> David Stipp <dstipp@one.net> Jeff McAdams <jeffm@iglou.com> Based off of l2tpd version 0.60 Copyright (C)1998 Adtran, Inc. Mark Spencer <markster@marko.net>