Information about the package, xl2tpd, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The xl2tpd package is designed for, Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol Daemon (RFC 2661).
Package Name:
xl2tpd
Summary:
Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol Daemon (RFC 2661)
Description:
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 Libreswan. 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. 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. Xl2tpd is based on the 0.69 L2TP by Jeff McAdams <jeffm@iglou.com> It was de-facto maintained by Jacco de Leeuw <jacco2@dds.nl> in 2002 and 2003.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.3.8
Release:
1.el6
Size:
89 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL+
Control the xl2tpd package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install xl2tpd
This command will install xl2tpd on the server.
yum remove xl2tpd
This command will un-install xl2tpd on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove xl2tpd, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove xl2tpd
This command will un-install xl2tpd on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove xl2tpd when using the -y flag.
yum update xl2tpd
This command will update xl2tpd to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove xl2tpd, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update xl2tpd
This command will update xl2tpd to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove xl2tpd when using the -y flag.
yum info xl2tpd
This command will show you core information about the xl2tpd package.
yum deplist xl2tpd
This command will show you the dependencies for xl2tpd. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update xl2tpd
This command will check if there is an update waiting on xl2tpd. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.