PPTPD

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXAMPLES
FILES
AUTHORS
COPYRIGHT
AVAILABILITY
SEE ALSO

NAME

pptpd - PPTP VPN daemon

SYNOPSIS

pptpd [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

pptpd is the Poptop PPTP daemon, which manages tunnelled PPP connections encapsulated in GRE using the PPTP VPN protocol. It may contain features like IP address management and TCP wrappers if compiled in.

OPTIONS

-b|--bcrelay internal-interface
specifies that broadcasts received on the server's internal network interface should be relayed to the clients.
-c|--conf conf-file
specifies the configuration file for pptpd (default /etc/pptpd.conf)
-d|--debug
turns on debugging mode, causing more debugging messages to be sent to syslog.
-e|--ppp pppd-program
use pppd-program in place of the default pppd(8).
-f|--fg
run in the foreground instead of detaching from terminal
-h|--help
display program usage.
-i|--noipparam
do not send the client's IP address to ip-up scripts (required if you are using the pppd(8) ipparam option for some other purpose).
-l|--listen x.x.x.x
specifies the local interface IP address to listen on.
-o|--option ppp-conf-file
specifies that pptpd should specify an alternate configuration file for the ppp daemon (the default is normally /etc/ppp/options but may vary depending on your ppp daemon).
-p|--pidfile pid-file
specifies an alternate location to store the process ID file (default /var/run/pptpd.pid).
-s|--speed baud
specifies that the speed baud should be passed to the ppp daemon as the tty speed to use (in some cases this is ignored by the ppp daemon).
-t|--stimeout seconds
specifies that the timeout value for the first packet should be seconds before dropping it. This is a denial of service protection feature.
-v|--version
displays the current version of the pptp daemon.

EXAMPLES

pptpd will start the Poptop PPTP VPN daemon (which will detach from the terminal and return immediately), using default options such as reading the configuration from /etc/pptpd.conf and noting the process ID in /var/run/pptpd.pid.
pptpd --debug -l 192.168.0.1 -fg -c /etc/pptpd.conf.test -p /etc/pptpd.pid will start the Poptop PPTP VPN daemon, with debugging increased, listening on local interface 192.168.0.1, running in the foreground and using the config file /etc/pptpd.conf.test and recording the process ID in /etc/pptpd.pid.

FILES

/etc/pptpd.conf
/var/run/pptpd.pid

AUTHORS

Poptop is written by Matthew Ramsay <matthewr@moreton.com.au>, David Luyer <luyer@ucs.uwa.edu.au>, Kevin Thayer <tmk@netmagic.net>, Peter Galbavy <Peter.Galbavy@knowledge.com> and others. Development has been moved to SourceForge and worked on by Richard de Vroede <r.devroede@linvision.com> since June 26, 2002.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1999 Matthew Ramsay and others.
Poptop 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, or (at your option) any later version.
Poptop 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 Poptop; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

AVAILABILITY

The most recent version of Poptop is available for download from SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/poptop.

SEE ALSO

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