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30.Dd August 14, 2018
31.Dt L2TP 4
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm l2tp
35.Nd layer two tunneling protocol version 3
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Cd "pseudo-device l2tp"
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The
40.Nm
41interface implements version 3 of the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TPv3).
42It can tunnel layer 2 protocol traffic over IPv4 or IPv6, as specified in
43.Li RFC3931 .
44.Pp
45The L2TPv3 protocol is comprised of two types of messages: control messages
46and data messages.
47Control messages are used in the establishment,
48maintenace, and clearing of control connections and sessions.
49The
50.Nm
51interface can send control messages and data messages; furthermore
52the management of control messages is entrusted to userland daemon.
53Without a management daemon, the
54.Nm
55interface can send data messages using the
56.Xr ifconfig 8
57.Cm tunnel
58and
59.Cm session
60subcommands, or the
61.Dv SIOCSIFPHYADDR
62and
63.Dv SIOCSL2TPSESSION
64ioctls.
65Additionally, it can use cookies specified in
66.Li RFC3931
67by using the
68.Xr ifconfig 8
69.Cm cookie
70subcommand, or the
71.Dv SIOCSL2TPCOOKIE
72ioctl.
73.Ss Packet format
74Layer 2 frames are prepended with a L2TPv3 header as described by
75RFC 3931.
76The resulting L2TPv3 packets will be encapsulated in an outer packet,
77which may be either an IPv4 or IPv6 packet, with IP protocol number 115.
78.Sh EXAMPLES
79Configuration example:
80.Bd -literal
81wm0 = 192.168.0.1/24                        wm0 = 192.168.0.2/24
82
83+------------+                                    +------------+
84|  NetBSD_A  |                                    |  NetBSD_B  |
85|------------|                                    |------------|
86|   [l2tp0] - - - - - - - - (tunnel) - - - - - - - - [l2tp0]   |
87|          [wm0]------------- ... --------------[wm0]          |
88|            |                                    |            |
89+---[wm1]----+                                    +----[wm1]---+
90      |                                                  |
91      |                                                  |
92+------------+                                    +------------+
93|   Host_X   |                                    |   Host_Y   |
94+------------+                                    +------------+
95.Ed
96.Ss Configuration example without cookies
97On NetBSD_A:
98.Bd -literal
99# ifconfig wm0 inet 192.168.0.1/24
100# ifconfig l2tp0 create
101# ifconfig l2tp0 tunnel 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2
102# ifconfig l2tp0 session 1234 4321
103# ifconfig bridge0 create
104# brconfig bridge0 add wm1
105# brconfig bridge0 add l2tp0
106# ifconfig l2tp0 up
107# ifconfig wm1 up
108# ifconfig bridge0 up
109.Ed
110.Pp
111On NetBSD_B:
112.Bd -literal
113# ifconfig wm0 inet 192.168.0.2/24
114# ifconfig l2tp0 create
115# ifconfig l2tp0 tunnel 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.1
116# ifconfig l2tp0 session 4321 1234
117# ifconfig bridge0 create
118# brconfig bridge0 add wm1
119# brconfig bridge0 add l2tp0
120# ifconfig l2tp0 up
121# ifconfig wm1 up
122# ifconfig bridge0 up
123.Ed
124.Ss Configuration example with cookies
125On NetBSD_A:
126.Bd -literal
127# ifconfig wm0 inet 192.168.0.1/24
128# ifconfig l2tp0 create
129# ifconfig l2tp0 tunnel 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2
130# ifconfig l2tp0 session 1234 4321
131# ifconfig l2tp0 cookie 4 12345 4 54321
132# ifconfig bridge0 create
133# brconfig bridge0 add wm1
134# brconfig bridge0 add l2tp0
135# ifconfig l2tp0 up
136# ifconfig wm1 up
137# ifconfig bridge0 up
138.Ed
139.Pp
140On NetBSD_B:
141.Bd -literal
142# ifconfig wm0 inet 192.168.0.2/24
143# ifconfig l2tp0 create
144# ifconfig l2tp0 tunnel 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.1
145# ifconfig l2tp0 session 4321 1234
146# ifconfig l2tp0 cookie 4 54321 4 12345
147# ifconfig bridge0 create
148# brconfig bridge0 add wm1
149# brconfig bridge0 add l2tp0
150# ifconfig l2tp0 up
151# ifconfig wm1 up
152# ifconfig bridge0 up
153.Ed
154.Sh SEE ALSO
155.Xr inet 4 ,
156.Xr inet6 4 ,
157.Xr ifconfig 8
158.Rs
159.%A J. Lau, Ed.
160.%A M. Townsley, Ed.
161.%A I. Goyret, Ed.
162.%B RFC 3931
163.%T Layer Two Tunneling Protocol - Version 3 (L2TPv3)
164.%D March 2005
165.%U ftp://ftp.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3931.txt
166.Re
167.Sh HISTORY
168The
169.Nm
170device first appeared in
171.Nx 8.0 .
172.Sh BUGS
173Currently, the
174.Nm
175interface supports Ethernet frames over IPv4 or IPv6 only.
176