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+.TH L2TPNS 8 "\*(Dt" L2TPNS "System Management Commands"
+.SH NAME
+l2tpns \- Layer 2 tunneling protocol network server (LNS)
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B l2tpns
+.RB [ \-d ]
+.RB [ \-v ]
+.RB [ \-c
+.IR file ]
+.RB [ \-h
+.IR hostname ]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B l2tpns
+is a daemon for terminating layer 2 tunneling protocol (L2TP: RFC
+2661) sessions.
+.PP
+Once running,
+.B l2tpns
+may be controlled by telnetting to port 23 on the machine running the
+daemon and with the
+.B nsctl
+utility.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.B \-d
+Detach from terminal and fork into the background. By default l2tpns
+will stay in the foreground.
+.TP
+.B \-v
+Increase verbosity for debugging. Can be used multiple times.
+.TP
+.BI "\-c " file
+Specify configuration file.
+.TP
+.BI "\-h " hostname
+Force hostname to
+.IR hostname .
+.SH FILES
+.TP
+.I /etc/l2tpns/startup-config
+The default configuration file.
+.TP
+.I /etc/l2tpns/ip_pool
+IP address pool configuration.
+.TP
+.I /etc/l2tpns/users
+Username/password configuration for access to admin interface.
+.SH SIGNALS
+.TP
+.B SIGHUP
+Reload the config from disk and re-open log file.
+.TP
+.BR SIGTERM ", " SIGINT
+Stop process.  Tunnels and sessions are not terminated.  This signal
+should be used to stop l2tpns on a cluster node where there are other
+machines to continue handling traffic.
+.TP
+.B SIGQUIT
+Shut down tunnels and sessions, exit process when complete.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR startup-config (5),
+.BR nsctl (8)
+.SH AUTHOR
+This manual page was written by Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>,
+for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).