SYNOPSIS
l2tpns [-d] [-v] [-c file] [-h hostname]DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS
- -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.
FILES
- /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.
SIGNALS
- 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.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Jonathan McDowell <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).