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| author | gshep <shepelev.georgy@googlemail.com> | 2010-04-16 22:05:37 -0400 |
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| committer | David Somero <xgizzmo@slackbuilds.org> | 2010-05-15 10:38:11 +0200 |
| commit | 89561721635655f34b446a885bdd0f2ede45bc95 (patch) | |
| tree | ce224939a76e9badab8dfab42fac75c1f275e7a5 /network/xl2tpd/README | |
| parent | d09ff52f2a799879c552bbdc401dea4b5f99bda3 (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-89561721635655f34b446a885bdd0f2ede45bc95.tar.gz | |
network/xl2tpd: Added (L2TP daemon)
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diff --git a/network/xl2tpd/README b/network/xl2tpd/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..212a1a374f --- /dev/null +++ b/network/xl2tpd/README @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +xl2tpd is an implementation of the Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol (RFC 2661). +L2TP allows you to tunnel PPP over UDP. Some ISPs use L2TP to tunnel user +sessions from dial-in servers (modem banks, ADSL DSLAMs) to back-end PPP +servers. Another important application is Virtual Private Networks where +the IPsec protocol is used to secure the L2TP connection (L2TP/IPsec, +RFC 3193). The L2TP/IPsec protocol is mainly used by Windows and +Mac OS X clients. On Linux, xl2tpd can be used in combination with IPsec +implementations such as Openswan. +Example configuration files for such a setup are included in this RPM. + +xl2tpd works by opening a pseudo-tty for communicating with pppd. +It runs completely in userspace but supports kernel mode L2TP. + +xl2tpd supports IPsec SA Reference tracking to enable overlapping internak +NAT'ed IP's by different clients (eg all clients connecting from their +linksys internal IP 192.168.1.101) as well as multiple clients behind +the same NAT router. + +xl2tpd supports the pppol2tp kernel mode operations on 2.6.23 or higher, +or via a patch in contrib for 2.4.x kernels. Note that kernel mode and +IPsec SA Reference tracking do not yet work together. |