l2tpns

l2tpns [-d] [-v] [-c file] [-h hostname]

l2tpns is a daemon for terminating layer 2 tunneling protocol (L2TP: RFC 2661) sessions.

Once running, l2tpns may be controlled by telnetting to port 23 on the machine running the daemon and with the nsctl utility.

-d

Detach from terminal and fork into the background. By default l2tpns will stay in the foreground.

-v

Increase verbosity for debugging. Can be used multiple times.

-c file

Specify configuration file.

-h hostname

Force hostname to hostname.

/etc/l2tpns/startup-config

The default configuration file.

/etc/l2tpns/ip_pool

IP address pool configuration.

/etc/l2tpns/users

Username/password configuration for access to admin interface.

SIGHUP

Reload the config from disk and re-open log file.

SIGTERM, SIGINT

Stop process. Tunnels and sessions are not terminated. This signal should be used to stop l2tpns on a cluster node where there are other machines to continue handling traffic.

SIGQUIT

Shut down tunnels and sessions, exit process when complete.

startup-config(5), nsctl(8)

This manual page was written by Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).