pptpd
is the Poptop PPTP daemon, which manages tunneled PPP connections
encapsulated in GRE using the PPTP VPN protocol. It may contain
features like IP address management and support TCP wrappers if
this support has been compiled in.
OPTIONS
-b|--bcrelay internal-interface
specifies that all broadcasts received on the server's internal
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.
-f|--fg
makes the pptp daemon run in the foreground (instead of the default
of backgrounding itself)
-h|--help
displays some simple help.
-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 DOS 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.
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.
