Ubuntu Manpage: pptpd - PPTP VPN daemon

NAME

       pptpd - PPTP VPN daemon

SYNOPSIS

       pptpd [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

       pptpd  is  the Poptop PPTP daemon, which manages tunnelled PPP connections encapsulated in
       GRE using the PPTP VPN protocol.  It may contain features like IP address  management  and
       TCP wrappers if compiled in.

OPTIONS

Here we document the command line options. See pptpd.conf(5) for configuration
directives, IP address allocation, routing, and firewall rules.

-b|--bcrelay internal-interface
specifies that broadcasts received on the server's internal network interface
should be relayed to the clients.

-c|--conf conf-file
specifies the configuration file for pptpd (default /etc/pptpd.conf)

-d|--debug
turns on debugging mode, causing more debugging messages to be sent to syslog.

-e|--ppp pppd-program
use pppd-program in place of the default pppd(8).

-f|--fg
run in the foreground instead of detaching from terminal

-h|--help
display program usage.

-i|--noipparam
do not send the client's IP address to ip-up scripts (required if you are using the
pppd(8) ipparam option for some other purpose).

-l|--listen x.x.x.x
specifies the local interface IP address to listen on.

-o|--option ppp-conf-file
specifies that pptpd should specify an alternate configuration file for the ppp
daemon (the default is normally /etc/ppp/options but may vary depending on your ppp
daemon).

-p|--pidfile pid-file
specifies an alternate location to store the process ID file (default
/var/run/pptpd.pid).

-s|--speed baud
specifies that the speed baud should be passed to the ppp daemon as the tty speed
to use (in some cases this is ignored by the ppp daemon).

-t|--stimeout seconds
specifies the number of seconds to wait for the first packet before dropping the
connection. This is a denial of service protection feature.

-w|--logwtmp
update wtmp(5) as users connect and disconnect. See wtmp(1).

-C|--connections n
limits the number of client connections that may be accepted. Corresponds to the
connections option in pptpd.conf. If pptpd is allocating IP addresses (e.g.
--delegate is not used) then the number of connections is also limited by the
remoteip option in pptpd.conf.

-D|--delegate
delegates the allocation of client IP addresses to pppd(8). Without this option,
which is the default, pptpd manages the list of IP addresses for clients and passes
the next free address to pppd. With this option, pptpd does not pass an address,
and so pppd may use radius or chap-secrets to allocate an address.

-V|--vrf vrf-name
specifies the VRF to be used for listening in.

-v|--version
displays the current version of the pptp daemon.

FILES

       /etc/pptpd.conf
       /var/run/pptpd.pid

DEBUGGING

       To  turn  on  debugging,  add  'debug'  to  /etc/pptpd.conf and your PPP options file, and
       restart pptpd.

       Typically the PPP options file is options.pptpd in /etc/ppp, though on some  distributions
       it  may be pptpd-options.  Use your package manager to find it, e.g. 'rpm -ql pptpd | grep
       options' or 'dpkg --listfiles pptpd | grep options'.

       You may need to configure syslogd to catch debug messages.  e.g. edit /etc/syslog.conf and
       add something similar to the example below, then restart syslogd.

       # debug logging
       *.debug;mail.none                                       /var/log/debug

       This  will  log all debug information, except mail, to the file /var/log/debug.  Note that
       this is a lot of information and might flood your disks.  If performance is an issue,  you
       can try turning off sync during your debugging, by prefixing the destination with '-'.

       # debug logging
       *.debug;mail.none                                       -/var/log/debug

       Disable  this  line  and  restart syslog after you are done debugging.  See the syslog man
       pages for more details.

AUTHORS

       Poptop   is   written   by   Matthew   Ramsay   <matthewr@moreton.com.au>,   David   Luyer
       <luyer@ucs.uwa.edu.au>,     Kevin     Thayer     <tmk@netmagic.net>,     Peter     Galbavy
       <Peter.Galbavy@knowledge.com> and others. Development has been moved  to  SourceForge  and
       worked on by Richard de Vroede <r.devroede@linvision.com> since June 26, 2002.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 1999 Matthew Ramsay and others.

       Poptop  is  free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
       GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2,
       or (at your option) any later version.

       Poptop  is  distributed  in  the  hope  that  it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
       without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR  PURPOSE.
       See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You  should  have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Poptop; see
       the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place -  Suite
       330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

AVAILABILITY

       The  most  recent  version  of  Poptop  is  available  for  download  from  SourceForge at
       http://sourceforge.net/projects/poptop.