NAME

       xl2tpd-control - xl2tpd control utility.

DESCRIPTION

       xl2tpd  is an implementation of the Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (RFC 2661).  L2TP allows to
       tunnel PPP over UDP. Some ISPs use L2TP to  tunnel  user  sessions  from  dial-in  servers
       (modem  banks,  ADSL  DSLAMs)  to  back-end PPP servers.  Another important application is
       Virtual Private Networks where the IPsec protocol is used to secure  the  L2TP  connection
       (L2TP/IPsec, RFC 3193).

       xl2tpd  works  by opening a pseudo-tty for communicating with pppd.  It runs completely in
       userspace but supports kernel mode L2TP.

       xl2tpd supports IPsec SA Reference tracking to enable overlapping internak NAT'ed IP's  by
       different clients (eg all clients connecting from their linksys internal IP 192.168.1.101)
       as well as multiple clients behind the same NAT router.

SYNOPSIS

       xl2tpd-control [-c PATH] <COMMAND> <TUNNEL_NAME> [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS

       -c     This option specifies xl2tpd control file.

       -d     This option enables debugging mode.

COMMANDS

       add-lac
              Adds  new  or  modify  existing  LAC  (L2TP  Access  Concentrator)   configuration.
              Configuration  should  be  specified  as  a  command options in <key>=<value> pairs
              format. See available options in xl2tpd.conf(5).

       connect-lac
              Establish new connection to LAC.  Username and secret for tunnel can be passed as a
              command options.

       disconnect-lac
              Disconnects tunnel.

       remove-lac
              Removes existing LAC configuration.  xl2tpd disconnects the tunnel before removing.

       add-lns
              Adds new or modify existing LNS (L2TP Network Server) configuration.

       remove-lns
              Removes existing LNS configuration.

       status-lns
              Check the status of LNS.

       available
              Check availability.

BUGS

       Please use the github project page https://github.com/xelerance/xl2tpd to send bugreports,
       issues and any other feedback.

SEE ALSO

       xl2tpd.conf(5), xl2tpd(8), pppd(8)

COPYLEFT

       This program 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 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This program 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 this  program
       (see  the  file  LICENSE);  if  not,  see  https://www.gnu.org/licenses/,  or contact Free
       Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.

CONTRIBUTORS

       Alexander Dorokhov <alex.dorokhov@gmail.com>
       Alexander Naumov <alexander_naumov@opensuse.org>

AUTHORS

       Forked from l2tpd by Xelerance: https://github.com/xelerance/xl2tpd

       Michael Richardson <mcr@xelerance.com>
       Paul Wouters <paul@xelerance.com>
       Samir Hussain <shussain@xelerance.com>

       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  0.61.   Many  thanks to Jacco de Leeuw <jacco2@dds.nl> for
       maintaining l2tpd.

       Copyright (C)1998 Adtran, Inc.
       Mark Spencer <markster@marko.net>

                                             Sep 2020                           xl2tpd-control(8)