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PPTP(8)								       PPTP(8)

NAME
       pptp - PPTP driver

SYNOPSIS
       pptp <pptp-server-IP> <pptp-options> [ppp-options] ...

DESCRIPTION
       pptp  establishes  the  client  side of a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
       using the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP).  Use	 this  program
       to  connect  to	an  employer's PPTP based VPN, or to certain cable and
       ADSL service providers.

       By default, pptp establishes the PPTP call to the PPTP server, and then
       starts  an instance of pppd to manage the data transfer.	 However, pptp
       can also be run as a connection manager within pppd.

OPTIONS
       The first non-option argument on the pptp command line must be the host
       name or IP address of the PPTP server.

       All  long options (starting with "--") are interpreted as pptp options,
       and a fatal error occurs if an unrecognised option is used.

       All command-line arguments which do not start with "-" are  interpreted
       as  ppp	options,  and  passed  as  is to pppd unless --nolaunchpppd is
       given.

       --phone <number>
	      Pass <number> to remote host as phone number

       --nolaunchpppd
	      Do not launch pppd but use stdin as the network connection.  Use
	      this flag when including pptp as a pppd connection process using
	      the pty option.  See EXAMPLES.

       --quirks <quirk>
	      Work around a buggy PPTP	implementation,	 adopts	 special  case
	      handling for particular PPTP servers and ADSL modems.  Currently
	      recognised values are BEZEQ_ISRAEL only

       --debug
	      Run in foreground (for debugging with gdb)

       --sync Enable Synchronous HDLC (pppd must use it too)

       --timeout <secs>
	      Time to wait for reordered packets (0.01 to 10 secs)

       --nobuffer
	      Completely disables buffering and reordering  of	packets.   Any
	      --timeout specified will be ignored.

       --idle-wait <secs>
	      Time  to	wait before sending a control connection echo request.
	      The RFC2637 default is 60 seconds.

       --max-echo-wait <secs>
	      Time to wait for an echo reply before closing the	 control  con‐
	      nection.	The RFC2637 default is 60 seconds.

       --logstring <name>
	      Use <name> instead of 'anon' in syslog messages

       --localbind <addr>
	      Bind to specified IP address instead of wildcard

       --loglevel <level>
	      Sets the debugging level (0=low, 1=default, 2=high)

       --test-type <n>
	      Enable  packet reordering tests that damage the integrity of the
	      packet stream  to	 the  server.	Use  this  only	 when  testing
	      servers.	 Zero  is the default, and means that packets are sent
	      in the correct order.  A value of one (1) causes a  single  swap
	      between two packets, such that the sequence numbers might be 1 2
	      3 4 6 5 7 8 9.  A value of two (2)  causes  ten  packets	to  be
	      buffered,	 then  sent  out of order but ascending, such that the
	      sequence numbers might be 1 2 3 4 16 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13	14  15
	      17  18  19  20.	A  value of three (3) causes ten packets to be
	      buffered, then sent in the reverse order, like this; 1 2 3 4  16
	      15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 17 18 19 20.

       --test-rate <n>
	      Sets  the	 number of packets to pass before causing a reordering
	      test.  Default is 100.  Has no effect if test-type is zero.  The
	      result of test types 2 and 3 are undefined if this value is less
	      than ten.

QUIRKS
       BEZEQ_ISRAEL
	      modifies packets to interoperate with Orckit ADSL modems on  the
	      BEZEQ network in Israel.

EXAMPLES
       Connection to a Microsoft Windows VPN Server

	 pppd noauth nobsdcomp nodeflate require-mppe-128 name domain\\\\user‐
       name remotename PPTP pty "pptp 10.0.0.5 --nolaunchpppd"

       Note that the chap-secrets file used by pppd must include an entry  for
       domain\\username

STATISTICS
       The  pptp  process  collects  statistics when sending and receiving GRE
       packets. They are intended to be useful for debugging poor PPTP perfor‐
       mance  and  for	general monitoring of link quality. The statistics are
       cumulative since the pptp process was started.

       The statistics can be viewed by sending a SIGUSR1 signal to  the	 "GRE-
       to-PPP Gateway" process, which will cause it to dump them to the system
       logs (at the LOG_NOTICE level). A better way to present the  statistics
       to applications is being sought (e.g. SNMP?).

       The  following  statistics  are collected at the time of writing (April
       2003):

       rx accepted
	      the number of GRE packets successfully passed to PPP

       rx lost
	      the number of packets never received, and presumed lost  in  the
	      network

       rx under win
	      the  number of packets which were duplicates or had old sequence
	      numbers (this might be caused by a packet-reordering network  if
	      your reordering timeout is set too low)

       rx over win
	      the  number  of packets which were too far ahead in the sequence
	      to be reordered (might be caused by loss of more than 300	 pack‐
	      ets in a row)

       rx buffered
	      the number of packets which were slightly ahead of sequence, and
	      were either buffered for reordering, or  if  buffering  is  dis‐
	      abled, accepted immediately (resulting in the intermediate pack‐
	      ets being discarded).

       rx OS errors
	      the number of times where the operating system reported an error
	      when we tried to read a packet

       rx truncated
	      the  number of times we received a packet which was shorter than
	      the length implied by the GRE header

       rx invalid
	      the number of times we received a packet which  had  invalid  or
	      unsupported  flags  set  in  the header, wrong version, or wrong
	      protocol.

       rx acks
	      the number of pure acknowledgements received (without data). Too
	      many  of these will waste bandwidth, and might be solved by tun‐
	      ing the remote host.

       tx sent
	      the number of GRE packets sent with data

       tx failed
	      the number of packets we tried to send, but the OS  reported  an
	      error

       tx short
	      the  number  of  times  the OS would not let us write a complete
	      packet

       tx acks
	      the number of times we sent a pure ack, without data

       tx oversize
	      the number of times we couldn't send a  packet  because  it  was
	      over PACKET_MAX bytes long

       round trip
	      the estimated round-trip time in milliseconds

SEE ALSO
       pppd(8)

       Documentation in /usr/share/doc/pptp

AUTHOR
       This  manual  page  was written by James Cameron <james.cameron@hp.com>
       from text contributed by Thomas	Quinot	<thomas@debian.org>,  for  the
       Debian  GNU/Linux  system.  The description of the available statistics
       was written by Chris Wilson <chris@netservers.co.uk>. Updates  for  the
       Debian distribution by Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org>.

								       PPTP(8)
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