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kpppoed

NAME
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DESCRIPTION
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CONFIGURATION
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NAME

kpppoed - a PPPoE daemon for creating L2TPv2 Access Concentrator sessions in response to PPPoE requests

SYNOPSIS

kpppoed [ arguments ]

DESCRIPTION

kpppoed is a PPPoE (RFC 2516) server daemon for creating L2TPv2 Access Concentrator sessions. It spawns kl2tpd for L2TP protocol support.

kpppoed and is driven by a configuration file which describes the PPPoE service to offer.

OPTIONS

-config string

specify configuration file path (default β€œ/etc/kpppoed/kpppoed.toml”)

-verbose

toggle verbose log output

CONFIGURATION

The kpppoed file, kpppoed.toml is written in the TOML markup language (https://toml.io/en/).

It uses a small set of key:value pairs to configure the PPPoE server:

# ac_name is the name that kpppoed will use in the PPPoE AC Name tag sent
# in PADO packets. If not specified it will default to "kpppoed".
ac_name = "MyAccessConcentrator.2000"

# interface_name is the name of the network interface that kpppoed will listen
# on for PPPoE discovery packets. It must be specified.
interface_name = "eth0"

# services is a list of service names that kpppoed will advertise in PADO packets
# At least one service must be specified.
services = [ "serviceA", "serviceB", "serviceC" ]

# lns_ipaddr is the IP address and port of the L2TP server to tunnel
# pppoe sessions to. The LNS address must be specified.
lns_ipaddr = "3.22.1.9:1701"

SEE ALSO

kpppoed.toml (5), kl2tpd (8)

AUTHORS

Katalix Systems, Ltd.