-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-6372 2012-04-22 02:44:01 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : xl2tpd Product : Fedora 16 Version : 1.3.1 Release : 5.fc16 URL : http://www.xelerance.com/software/xl2tpd/ Summary : Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol Daemon (RFC 2661) Description : xl2tpd is an implementation of the Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol (RFC 2661). L2TP allows you to tunnel PPP over UDP. Some ISPs use L2TP to tunnel user sessions from dial-in servers (modem banks, ADSL DSLAMs) to back-end PPP servers. Another important application is Virtual Private Networks where the IPsec protocol is used to secure the L2TP connection (L2TP/IPsec, RFC 3193). The L2TP/IPsec protocol is mainly used by Windows and Mac OS X clients. On Linux, xl2tpd can be used in combination with IPsec implementations such as Openswan. Example configuration files for such a setup are included in this RPM.
xl2tpd works by opening a pseudo-tty for communicating with pppd. It runs completely in userspace.
xl2tpd supports IPsec SA Reference tracking to enable overlapping internak NAT'ed IP's by different clients (eg all clients connecting from their linksys internal IP 192.168.1.101) as well as multiple clients behind the same NAT router.
xl2tpd supports the pppol2tp kernel mode operations on 2.6.23 or higher, or via a patch in contrib for 2.4.x kernels.
Xl2tpd is based on the 0.69 L2TP by Jeff McAdams jeffm@iglou.com It was de-facto maintained by Jacco de Leeuw jacco2@dds.nl in 2002 and 2003.
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Support for kernel mode L2TP that significantly reduces CPU usage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Wed Apr 18 2012 Paul Wouters pwouters@redhat.com - 1.3.1-5 - Added support for CONFIG_PPPOL2TP by sigwall fionov@gmail.com - Require current ppp because some old versions lacked pppol2tp.so plugin - Fix parse error on lines > 80 chars, rhbz#806963 * Tue Feb 28 2012 Paul Wouters pwouters@redhat.com - 1.3.1-3 - Converted to systemd - Added -Wunused patch to fix two minor warnings -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #806963 - Comment lines that exceed ~80 characters cause an error in parsing the config https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806963 [ 2 ] Bug #670195 - Build xl2tpd with kernel support https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=670195 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update xl2tpd' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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