PPTPD.CONF

NAME
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
NOTES
SEE ALSO

NAME

pptpd.conf - PPTP VPN daemon configuration

DESCRIPTION

Upon initial execution, pptpd reads its configuration from a configuration file which, by default, is /etc/pptpd.conf. This allows the system administrator to set specific options which control the behaviour of the PoPToP PPTP VPN daemon. These settings can be overridden by command line flags (except for the local and remote IP addresses, which cannot be set on the command line).

OPTIONS

speed speed
specifies a speed (in bytes per second) to pass to the PPP daemon as the interface speed for the tty/pty pair. This may be ignored by some PPP daemons. This is equivalent to the -s or --speed command line option. The default is 115200 bytes per second, which some implementations interpret as meaning "no limit".
option option-file
specifies the name of an option file to be passed to the PPP daemon, in place of the standard PPP option file (normally /etc/ppp/options). This is equivalent to the -o or --option command line option.
debug
turns on debugging mode, sending debugging information to the system log. This is equivalent to the -d or --debug command line option.
localip ip-specification
specifies one or many IP addresses to be used at the local end of the tunnelled PPP links between the server and the client. If one address only is given, this address is used for all clients. Otherwise, one address per client must be given, and if there are no free addresses then any new clients will be refused.
remoteip ip-specification
specifies the list of remote IP addresses to be used on the tunnelled PPP links between the server and the client. There must be at least one IP address per client permitted to connect simultaneously, and preferably some spare addresses. A warning will be printed to the system log when the IP address pool is exhausted.
ipxnets from to
specifies the range of valid IPX network numbers to be allocated to clients (this requires a PPP daemon which supports IPX).
listen ip-address
specifies the local interface IP address to listen to. This is equivalent to the -l or --listen command line option.
pidfile pid-file
specifies the filename to store the process ID number in. This is equivalent to the -p or --pidfile command line option.

NOTES

An ip-specification above (for the localip and remoteip tags) may be a list of IP addresses (for example 192.168.0.2,192.168.0.3), a range (for example 192.168.0.1-254 or 192.168.0-255.2) or some combination (for example 192.168.0.2,192.168.0.5-8). For some valid pairs might be (depending on use of the VPN):
localip 192.168.0.1
remoteip
192.168.0.2-255
or
localip 192.168.0-255.1
remoteip
192.168.0-255.2

SEE ALSO

pptpd(8).