1 .TH "xl2tpd" "8" "" "Jeff McAdams" ""
3 xl2tpd \- Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol Daemon
5 A Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol VPN client/daemon for Linux and other POSIX-based
6 OSs. Based off of L2TPd 0.61 from
7 http://www.marko.net/l2tp
8 and patches collected by Jacco de Leeuw at
9 http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/openswan-l2tp.html
11 Currently maintained by Xelerance
12 http://www.xelerance.com/software/xl2tpd/
14 xl2tpd implements the Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol, defined by RFC 2661.
19 This option prevents xl2tpd from detaching from the terminal and
24 Tells xl2tpd to use an alternate config file. Default is
25 /etc/xl2tpd/xl2tpd.conf. Fallback configuration file is
30 Tells xl2tpd to use an alternate "secrets" file. Default is
31 /etc/xl2tpd/l2tp-secrets
35 Tells xl2tpd to use an alternate pid file. Default is
36 /var/run/xl2tpd/xl2tpd.pid
40 Tells xl2tpd to use an alternate control file. Default is
41 /var/run/xl2tpd/l2tp-control
46 \fB\fR/etc/xl2tpd/xl2tpd.conf \fB\fR/etc/xl2tpd/l2tp\-secrets
47 \fB\fR/var/run/l2tp\-control
50 Please address bugs and comment to xl2tpd\-dev@xelerance.com
55 Forked from l2tpd by Xelerance (http://www.xelerance.com/software/xl2tpd/
57 Michael Richardson <mcr@xelerance.com>
58 Paul Wouters <paul@xelerance.com>
60 Many thanks to Jacco de Leeuw <jacco2@dds.nl> for maintaining l2tpd.
63 Previous development was hosted at sourceforge
64 (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/l2tpd) by:
66 Scott Balmos <sbalmos@iglou.com>
68 David Stipp <dstipp@one.net>
70 Jeff McAdams <jeffm@iglou.com>
73 Based off of l2tpd version 0.60
75 Copyright (C)1998 Adtran, Inc.
77 Mark Spencer <markster@marko.net>