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.

-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/l2tp-control

AUTHORS

Forked from l2tpd by Xelerance (http://www.xelerance.com/software/xl2tpd/

Michael Richardson <[email protected]> Paul Wouters <[email protected]>

Many thanks to Jacco de Leeuw <[email protected]> for maintaining l2tpd.

Previous development was hosted at sourceforge (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/l2tpd) by:

Scott Balmos <[email protected]>
David Stipp <[email protected]>
Jeff McAdams <[email protected]>

Based off of l2tpd version 0.60
Copyright (C)1998 Adtran, Inc.
Mark Spencer <[email protected]>