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.

       -l     This option tells xl2tpd to use syslog for logging even when -D was specified.

       -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/xl2tpd/l2tp-control

BUGS

       Please address bugs and comment to xl2tpd@lists.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>