Xl2tpd (8) Linux Manual Page

xl2tpd – Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol Daemon

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.

-D: This option prevents xl2tpd from detaching from the terminal and daemonizing.
-l: This option tells xl2tpd to use syslog for logging even when -D was specified.
-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

/etc/xl2tpd/xl2tpd.conf /etc/xl2tpd/l2tp-secrets /var/run/xl2tpd/l2tp-control

Please address bugs and comment to xl2tpd [at] lists.xelerance.com

Michael Richardson <mcr [at] xelerance.com> Paul Wouters <paul [at] xelerance.com>

Many thanks to Jacco de Leeuw <jacco2 [at] dds.nl> for maintaining l2tpd.

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

Scott Balmos <sbalmos [at] iglou.com>
David Stipp <dstipp [at] one.net>
Jeff McAdams <jeffm [at] iglou.com>

Based off of l2tpd version 0.60
Copyright (C)1998 Adtran, Inc.
Mark Spencer <markster [at] marko.net>