pptpd - PPTP VPN daemon

pptpd [ options ]

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.

Here we document the command line options. See pptpd.conf(5) for configuration directives, IP address allocation, routing, and firewall rules.

-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 the number of seconds to wait for the first packet before dropping the connection. This is a denial of service protection feature.

-w|--logwtmp

update wtmp(5) as users connect and disconnect. See wtmp(1).

-v|--version

displays the current version of the pptp daemon.

/etc/pptpd.conf

/var/run/pptpd.pid

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 © 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.

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

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