<LI><A HREF="#Interception">Interception</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#Authentication">Authentication</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#Plugins">Plugins</A></LI>
- <LI><A HREF="#Walled Garden">Walled Garden</A></LI>
+ <LI><A HREF="#WalledGarden">Walled Garden</A></LI>
+ <LI><A HREF="#Filtering">Filtering</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#Clustering">Clustering</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#Routing">Routing</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#Performance">Performance</A></LI>
protocol (e.g. Ethernet, PPP) to be tunneled over an IP connection. l2tpns
implements PPP over L2TP only.<P>
-There are a couple of other L2TP imlementations, of which <A
+There are a couple of other L2TP im
plementations, of which <A
HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/l2tpd">l2tpd</A> is probably the
most popular. l2tpd also will handle being either end of a tunnel, and
is a lot more configurable than l2tpns. However, due to the way it works,
<BR>
<EM>Documentation is not my best skill. If you find any problems
with this document, or if you wish to contribute, please email <A
-HREF="mailto:
david@dparrish.com?subject=L2TPNS+Documentation">david@dparrish.com</A>.</EM><P>
+HREF="mailto:
l2tpns-users@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=L2TPNS+Documentation">the mailing list</A>.</EM><P>
<H2 ID="Installation">Installation</H2>
<H3 ID="Requirements">Requirements</H3>
set boolean true
</PRE>
+<P>
<UL>
<LI><B>debug</B> (int)<BR>
Sets the level of messages that will be written to the log file. The value
Note that the higher you set the debugging level, the slower the program
will run. Also, at level 5 a LOT of information will be logged. This should
only ever be used for working out why it doesn't work at all.
-<P>
</LI>
<LI><B>log_file</B> (string)<BR>
This will be where all logging and debugging information is written
-to. This can be either a filename, such as <EM>/var/log/l2tpns</EM>, or
+to. This may be either a filename, such as <EM>/var/log/l2tpns</EM>, or
the special magic string <EM>syslog:facility</EM>, where <EM>facility</EM>
is any one of the syslog logging facilities, such as local5.
-<P>
+</LI>
+
+<LI><B>pid_file</B> (string)<BR>
+If set, the process id will be written to the specified file. The
+value must be an absolute path.
</LI>
<LI><B>l2tp_secret</B> (string)<BR>
-This sets the string that l2tpns will use for authenticating tunnel request.
-This must be the same as the LAC, or authentication will fail. This will
-only actually be used if the LAC requests authentication.
-<P>
+The secret used by l2tpns for authenticating tunnel request. Must be
+the same as the LAC, or authentication will fail. Only actually be
+used if the LAC requests authentication.
</LI>
<LI><B>primary_dns</B> (ip address)
Whenever a PPP connection is established, DNS servers will be sent to the
user, both a primary and a secondary. If either is set to 0.0.0.0, then that
one will not be sent.
-<P>
-</LI>
-
-<LI><B>save_state</B> (boolean)<BR>
-When l2tpns receives a STGTERM it will write out its current
-ip_address_pool, session and tunnel tables to disk prior to exiting to
-be re-loaded at startup. The validity of this data is obviously quite
-short and the intent is to allow an sessions to be retained over a
-software upgrade.
-<P>
</LI>
<LI><B>primary_radius</B> (ip address)
<LI><B>secondary_radius</B> (ip address)<BR>
-This sets the radius servers used for both authentication and
-accounting. If the primary server does not respond, then the
-secondary radius server will be tried.
-<P>
+Sets the RADIUS servers used for both authentication and accounting.
+If the primary server does not respond, then the secondary RADIUS
+server will be tried.<br>
+<strong>Note:</strong> in addition to the source IP address and
+identifier, the RADIUS server <strong>must</strong> include the source
+port when detecting duplicates to supress (in order to cope with a
+large number of sessions comming on-line simultaneously l2tpns uses a
+set of udp sockets, each with a seperate identifier).
+</LI>
+
+<LI><B>primary_radius_port</B> (short)
+<LI><B>secondary_radius_port</B> (short)<BR>
+Sets the authentication ports for the primary and secondary RADIUS
+servers. The accounting port is one more than the authentication
+port. If no RADIUS ports are given, the authentication port defaults
+to 1645, and the accounting port to 1646.
</LI>
<LI><B>radius_accounting</B> (boolean)<BR>
-If set to true, then radius accounting packets will be sent. This
+If set to true, then RADIUS accounting packets will be sent. This
means that a Start record will be sent when the session is
successfully authenticated, and a Stop record will be sent when the
session is closed.
-<P>
</LI>
<LI><B>radius_secret</B> (string)<BR>
-This secret will be used in all radius queries. If this is not set then
-radius queries will fail.
-<P>
+This secret will be used in all RADIUS queries. If this is not set then
+RADIUS queries will fail.
</LI>
<LI><B>bind_address</B> (ip address)<BR>
specified here. If no address is given, 1.1.1.1 is used. Packets
containing user traffic should be routed via this address if given,
otherwise the primary address of the machine.
-<P>
</LI>
+<LI><B>peer_address</B> (ip address)<BR>
+Address to send to clients as the default gateway.
+</L1>
+
<LI><B>send_garp</B> (boolean)<BR>
Determines whether or not to send a gratuitous ARP for the
bind_address when the server is ready to handle traffic (default:
true).<BR>
This value is ignored if BGP is configured.
-<P>
</LI>
<LI><B>throttle_speed</B> (int)<BR>
-Sets the speed (in kbits/s) which sessions will be limited to. If this is
-set to 0, then throttling will not be used at all. Note: You can set this by
-the CLI, but changes will not affect currently connected users.
-<P>
+Sets the default speed (in kbits/s) which sessions will be limited to.
+If this is set to 0, then throttling will not be used at all. Note:
+You can set this by the CLI, but changes will not affect currently
+connected users.
+</LI>
+
+<LI><B>throttle_buckets</B> (int)<BR>
+Number of token buckets to allocate for throttling. Each throttled
+session requires two buckets (in and out).
</LI>
<LI><B>accounting_dir</B> (string)<BR>
separated by a space.<BR> The fields are username, ip, qos,
uptxoctets, downrxoctets. The qos field is 1 if a standard user, and
2 if the user is throttled.
-<P>
</LI>
<LI><B>setuid</B> (int)<BR>
After starting up and binding the interface, change UID to this. This
doesn't work properly.
-<P>
</LI>
<LI><B>dump_speed</B> (boolean)<BR>
If set to true, then the current bandwidth utilization will be logged every
second. Even if this is disabled, you can see this information by running
the <EM>uptime</EM> command on the CLI.
-<P>
</LI>
<LI><B>cleanup_interval</B> (int)<BR>
Interval between regular cleanups (in seconds).
-<P>
</LI>
<LI><B>multi_read_count</B> (int)<BR>
Number of packets to read off each of the UDP and TUN fds when
returned as readable by select (default: 10). Avoids incurring the
unnecessary system call overhead of select on busy servers.
-<P>
</LI>
<LI><B>scheduler_fifo</B> (boolean)<BR>
Sets the scheduling policy for the l2tpns process to SCHED_FIFO. This
-causes the kernel to immediately preempt any currently SCHED_OTHER
+causes the kernel to immediately preempt any currently running SCHED_OTHER
(normal) process in favour of l2tpns when it becomes runnable.
Ignored on uniprocessor systems.
-<P>
</LI>
<LI><B>lock_pages</B> (boolean)<BR>
Keep all pages mapped by the l2tpns process in memory.
-<P>
</LI>
<LI><B>icmp_rate</B> (int)<BR>
-Maximum number of host unreachable icmp packets to send per second.
-<P>
+Maximum number of host unreachable ICMP packets to send per second.
+</LI>
+
+<LI><B>packet_limit</B> (int><BR>
+Maximum number of packets of downstream traffic to be handled each
+tenth of a second per session. If zero, no limit is applied (default:
+0). Intended as a DoS prevention mechanism and not a general
+throttling control (packets are dropped, not queued).
</LI>
<LI><B>cluster_address</B> (ip address)<BR>
Multicast cluster address (default: 239.192.13.13). See the section
on <A HREF="#Clustering">Clustering</A> for more information.
-<P>
</LI>
<LI><B>cluster_interface</B> (string)<BR>
Interface for cluster packets (default: eth0).
-<P>
</LI>
<LI><B>cluster_hb_interval</B> (int)<BR>
Interval in tenths of a second between cluster heartbeat/pings.
-<P>
</LI>
<LI><B>cluster_hb_timeout</B> (int)<BR>
Cluster heartbeat timeout in tenths of a second. A new master will be
elected when this interval has been passed without seeing a heartbeat
from the master.
-<P>
-</LI>
-
-<LI><B>as_number</B> (int)<BR>
-Defines the local AS number for BGP (see <A HREF="#Routing">Routing</A>).
-<P>
-</LI>
-
-<LI><B>bgp_peer1</B> (string)
-<LI><B>bgp_peer1_as</B> (int)
-<LI><B>bgp_peer2</B> (string)
-<LI><B>bgp_peer2_as</B> (int)<BR>
-<P>
-DNS name (or IP) and AS number of BGP peers.
</LI>
</UL>
+<P>BGP routing configuration is entered by the command:
+The routing configuration section is entered by the command
+<DL><DD><B>router bgp</B> <I>as</I></DL>
+where <I>as</I> specifies the local AS number.
+
+<P>Subsequent lines prefixed with
+<DL><DD><B>neighbour</B> <I>peer</I></DL>
+define the attributes of BGP neighhbours. Valid commands are:
+<DL>
+ <DD><B>neighbour</B> <I>peer</I> <B>remote-as</B> <I>as</I>
+ <DD><B>neighbout</B> <I>peer</I> <B>timers</B> <I>keepalive hold</I>
+</DL>
+
+Where <I>peer</I> specifies the BGP neighbour as either a hostname or
+IP address, <I>as</I> is the remote AS number and <I>keepalive</I>,
+<I>hold</I> are the timer values in seconds.
+
+<P>Named access-lists are configured using one of the commands:
+<DL>
+ <DD><B>ip access-list standard</B> <I>name</I>
+ <DD><B>ip access-list extended</B> <I>name</I>
+</DL>
+
+<P>Subsequent lines prefixed with <B>permit</B> or <B>deny</B>
+define the body of the access-list. Standard access-list syntax:
+<DL>
+ <DD>{<B>permit</B>|<B>deny</B>}
+ {<I>host</I>|<I>source source-wildcard</I>|<B>any</B>}
+ [{<I>host</I>|<I>destination destination-wildcard</I>|<B>any</B>}]
+</DL>
+
+Extended access-lists:
+
+<DIV STYLE="margin-left: 4em; text-indent: -2em">
+ <P>{<B>permit</B>|<B>deny</B>} <B>ip</B>
+ {<I>host</I>|<I>source source-wildcard</I>|<B>any</B>}
+ {<I>host</I>|<I>destination destination-wildcard</I>|<B>any</B>} [<B>fragments</B>]
+ <P>{<B>permit</B>|<B>deny</B>} <B>udp</B>
+ {<I>host</I>|<I>source source-wildcard</I>|<B>any</B>}
+ [{<B>eq</B>|<B>neq</B>|<B>gt</B>|<B>lt</B>} <I>port</I>|<B>range</B> <I>from</I> <I>to</I>]
+ {<I>host</I>|<I>destination destination-wildcard</I>|<B>any</B>}
+ [{<B>eq</B>|<B>neq</B>|<B>gt</B>|<B>lt</B>} <I>port</I>|<B>range</B> <I>from</I> <I>to</I>]
+ [<B>fragments</B>]
+ <P>{<B>permit</B>|<B>deny</B>} <B>tcp</B>
+ {<I>host</I>|<I>source source-wildcard</I>|<B>any</B>}
+ [{<B>eq</B>|<B>neq</B>|<B>gt</B>|<B>lt</B>} <I>port</I>|<B>range</B> <I>from</I> <I>to</I>]
+ {<I>host</I>|<I>destination destination-wildcard</I>|<B>any</B>}
+ [{<B>eq</B>|<B>neq</B>|<B>gt</B>|<B>lt</B>} <I>port</I>|<B>range</B> <I>from</I> <I>to</I>]
+ [{<B>established</B>|{<B>match-any</B>|<B>match-all</B>}
+ {<B>+</B>|<B>-</B>}{<B>fin</B>|<B>syn</B>|<B>rst</B>|<B>psh</B>|<B>ack</B>|<B>urg</B>}
+ ...|<B>fragments</B>]
+</DIV>
+
<H3 ID="users">users</H3>
Usernames and passwords for the command-line interface are stored in
method of control is by the Command-Line Interface (CLI).<P>
You can also remotely send commands to modules via the nsctl client
-provided. This currently only works with the walled garden module, but
-modification is trivial to support other modules.<P>
+provided.<P>
Also, there are a number of signals that l2tpns understands and takes action
when it receives them.
</LI>
<LI><B>show radius</B><BR>
-Show a summary of the in-use radius sessions. This list should not be very
-long, as radius sessions should be cleaned up as soon as they are used. The
+Show a summary of the in-use RADIUS sessions. This list should not be very
+long, as RADIUS sessions should be cleaned up as soon as they are used. The
columns listed are:
<TABLE>
- <TR><TD><B>Radius</B></TD><TD>The ID of the radius request. This is
- sent in the packet to the radius server for identification.</TD></TR>
+ <TR><TD><B>Radius</B></TD><TD>The ID of the RADIUS request. This is
+ sent in the packet to the RADIUS server for identification.</TD></TR>
<TR><TD><B>State</B></TD><TD>The state of the request - WAIT, CHAP,
AUTH, IPCP, START, STOP, NULL.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD><B>Session</B></TD><TD>The session ID that this radius
+ <TR><TD><B>Session</B></TD><TD>The session ID that this RADIUS
request is associated with</TD></TR>
<TR><TD><B>Retry</B></TD><TD>If a response does not appear to the
request, it will retry at this time. This is a unix timestamp.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD><B>Try</B></TD><TD>Retry count. The radius request is
+ <TR><TD><B>Try</B></TD><TD>Retry count. The RADIUS request is
discarded after 3 retries.</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
<P>
host/port. Specify <EM>no snoop username</EM> to disable interception
for the session.<P>
-If you want interception to be permanent, you will have to modify the radius
+If you want interception to be permanent, you will have to modify the RADIUS
response for the user. See <A HREF="#Interception">Interception</A>.
<P>
</LI>
for the current session.<P>
If you want throttling to be permanent, you will have to modify the
-radius response for the user. See <A HREF="#THrottling">Throttling</A>.
+RADIUS response for the user. See <A HREF="#Throttling">Throttling</A>.
<P>
</LI>
<H3 ID="nsctl">nsctl</H3>
-nsctl
was implemented (badly) to allow messages to be passed to modules.<P>
+nsctl
allows messages to be passed to plugins.<P>
-You must pass at least 2 parameters: <EM>host</EM> and <EM>command</EM>. The
-host is the address of the l2tpns server which you want to send the message
-to.<P>
+Arguments are <EM>command</EM> and optional <EM>args</EM>. See
+<STRONG>nsctl</STRONG>(8) for more details.<P>
-Command can currently be either <EM>garden</EM> or <EM>ungarden</EM>. With
-both of these commands, you must give a session ID as the 3rd parameter.
-This will activate or deactivate the walled garden for a session
-temporarily.
+Built-in command are <EM>load_plugin</EM>, <EM>unload_plugin</EM> and
+<EM>help</EM>. Any other commands are passed to plugins for processing.
<H3 ID="Signals">Signals</H3>
The signals understood are:
<UL>
-<LI>SIGHUP - Reload the config from disk and re-open log file<P></LI>
-<LI>SIGTERM / SIGINT - Shut down for a restart. This will dump the current
-state to disk (if <EM>save_state</EM> is set to true). Upon restart, the
-process will read this saved state to resume active sessions.<P>
+<LI>SIGHUP - Reload the config from disk and re-open log file</LI>
+<LI>SIGTERM / SIGINT - Shut down.</LI>
<LI>SIGQUIT - Shut down cleanly. This will send a disconnect message for
-every active session and tunnel before shutting down. This is a good idea
-when upgrading the code, as no sessions will be left with the remote end
-thinking they are open.</LI>
+every active session and tunnel before shutting down.</LI>
</UL>
<H2 ID="Throttling">Throttling</H2>
before this will be activated.<P>
If you wish a session to be throttled permanently, you should set the
-Vendor-Specific radius value <B>Cisco-Avpair="throttle=yes"</B>, which
+Vendor-Specific RADIUS value <B>Cisco-Avpair="throttle=yes"</B>, which
will be handled by the <EM>autothrottle</EM> module.<P>
Otherwise, you can enable and disable throttling an active session using
immediately.<P>
If you wish the user to be intercepted whenever they reconnect, you will
-need to modify the radius response to include the Vendor-Specific value
+need to modify the RADIUS response to include the Vendor-Specific value
<B>Cisco-Avpair="intercept=yes"</B>. For this feature to be enabled,
you need to have the <EM>autosnoop</EM> module loaded.<P>
completed. The remote end must send a PPP CHAP or PPP PAP authentication
request to l2tpns.<P>
-This request is sent to the radius server, which will hopefully respond with
+This request is sent to the RADIUS server, which will hopefully respond with
Auth-Accept or Auth-Reject.<P>
If Auth-Accept is received, the session is set up and an IP address is
-assigned. The radius server can include a Framed-IP-Address field in the
+assigned. The RADIUS server can include a Framed-IP-Address field in the
reply, and that address will be assigned to the client. It can also include
specific DNS servers, and a Framed-Route if that is required.<P>
PPP AUTHACK, but their session is flagged as being a garden'd user, and they
should not receive any service.<P>
-The radius reply can also contain a Vendor-Specific attribute called
+The RADIUS reply can also contain a Vendor-Specific attribute called
Cisco-Avpair. This field is a freeform text field that most Cisco
devices understand to contain configuration instructions for the session. In
the case of l2tpns it is expected to be of the form
<TABLE CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=3>
<TR BGCOLOR=LIGHTGREEN><TH><B>Event</B></TH><TH><B>Description</B></TH><TH><B>Parameters</B></TH></TR>
<TR VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=WHITE><TD><B>pre_auth</B></TD>
- <TD>This is called after a radius response has been
+ <TD>This is called after a RADIUS response has been
received, but before it has been processed by the
code. This will allow you to modify the response in
some way.
</TD>
</TR>
<TR VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=WHITE><TD><B>post_auth</B></TD>
- <TD>This is called after a radius response has been
+ <TD>This is called after a RADIUS response has been
received, and the basic checks have been performed. This
is what the garden module uses to force authentication
to be accepted.
</TD>
</TR>
<TR VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=WHITE><TD><B>radius_response</B></TD>
- <TD>This is called whenever a radius response includes a
+ <TD>This is called whenever a RADIUS response includes a
Cisco-Avpair value. The value is split up into
<EM>key=value</EM> pairs, and each is processed through all
modules.
to sessions that incorrectly authenticate.<P>
Whenever a session provides incorrect authentication, and the
-radius server responds with Auth-Reject, the walled garden module
+RADIUS server responds with Auth-Reject, the walled garden module
(if loaded) will force authentication to succeed, but set the flag
<EM>garden</EM> in the session structure, and adds an iptables rule to
the <B>garden_users</B> chain to force all packets for the session's IP
iptables -t nat -L garden -nvx
</PRE>
+<H2 ID="Filtering">Filtering</H2>
+
+Sessions may be filtered by specifying <B>Filter-Id</B> attributes in
+the RADIUS reply. <I>filter</I>.<B>in</B> specifies that the named
+access-list <I>filter</I> should be applied to traffic from the
+customer, <I>filter</I>.<B>out</B> specifies a list for traffic to the
+customer.
+
<H2 ID="Clustering">Clustering</H2>
An l2tpns cluster consists of of one* or more servers configured with
<BR>
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-<A HREF="mailto:david@dparrish.com?subject=L2TPNS+Documentation">david@dparrish.com</A>
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