kpppoed

Overview ¶

The kpppoed command is a PPPoE Access Concentrator daemon for switching PPPoE sessions into L2TPv2 sessions.

Package pppoe is used for managing a PPPoE connection, and for building and parsing PPPoE discovery protocol messages.

Management of the L2TP protocol is via. the kl2tpd daemon, which must be installed at the well-known path /usr/sbin/kl2tpd.

kpppoed is configured using a simple TOML file. This example configuration shows the parameters that are accepted:

# 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"