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VTUND(8)						      System Manager's Manual							  VTUND(8)

NAME
vtund - VTun(Virtual Tunnel) daemon. SYNOPSIS
vtund < -s > [ -i ] [ -n ] [ -f file ] [ -P port ] vtund [ -f file ] [ -P port ] [ -p ] [ -m ] [ -t timeout ] [ -n ] < session > < server address > DESCRIPTION
VTun provides the method for creating Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks and allows to shape, compress, encrypt traffic in that tunnels. Supported type of tunnels are: PPP, IP, Ethernet and most of other serial protocols and programs. VTun is easily and highly configurable, it can be used for various network task like VPN, Mobile IP, Shaped Internet access, IP address saving, etc. It is completely user space implementation and does not require modification to any kernel parts. OPTIONS
-f file Read config information from the file (full path required). By default vtund uses /etc/vtund.conf -n Do not become daemon. Server mode: -s Run as the server. -i Run as the inetd server. -P port Listen for connection on the specified port By default vtund listens on TCP port 5000. This options is equivalent to the 'port' option of config file. Client mode: -P port Connect to the server on the specified port By default vtund connects to TCP port 5000. This options is equivalent to the 'port' option of config file. -p Reconnect to the server after connection termination. By default vtund will exit if connection has been terminated. This options is equivalent to the 'persist' option of config file. -m Force memory pages to be locked memory-resident to prevent potential VM deadlock. Useful with NFS traffic. This option has no con- fig file equivalent. -t timeout Connect timeout Default is 30 seconds. This options is equivalent to the 'timeout' option of config file. session Session name from the config file. server Address of the server to connect to. Either IP address or domain name can be specified. FILES
/etc/vtund.conf Main configuration file with sessions and other information. See vtund.conf example provided with distribution and vtund.conf(5) for more information. /var/lock/vtund/ Session lock files. /var/log/vtund/ Connection statistic log files. Format: Date Uncomp_In Uncomp_Out Comp_In Comp_Out SIGNALS
SIGHUP Server mode: Causes vtund to reread the config file. Client mode: Causes vtund to reestablish the connection. SIGUSR1 This signal causes vtund to reset statistic counters. SEE ALSO
vtund.conf(5) NOTES
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/) AUTHORS
Maxim Krasnyansky <max_mk@yahoo.com> VTUND(8)

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identd(1M)																identd(1M)

NAME
identd - TCP/IP IDENT protocol server SYNOPSIS
seconds] uid] gid] port] address] charset] DESCRIPTION
is a server which implements the TCP/IP proposed standard IDENT user identification protocol as specified in the RFC 1413 document. operates by looking up specific TCP/IP connections and returning the user name of the process owning the connection. Arguments The flag, which is the default mode, should be used when starting the daemon from with the "nowait" option in the file. Use of this mode will make start one daemon for each connection request. The flag should be used when starting the daemon from with the "wait" option in the file. The daemon will run either forever, until a timeout, as specified by the flag, occurs. The flag can be used to make the daemon run in standalone mode without the assistance from This mode is the least preferred mode, and not supported by HP, since a bug or any other fatal condition in the server will make it terminate and it will then have to be restarted manually. The option is used to specify the timeout limit. This is the number of seconds a server started with the flag will wait for new con- nections before terminating. The server is automatically restarted by whenever a new connection is requested if it has termi- nated. A suitable value for this is 120 (2 minutes), if used. It defaults to no timeout. That is, it will wait forever, or until a fatal condition occurs in the server. The option is used to specify a user id number which the server should switch to after binding itself to the TCP/IP port if using the mode of operation. The option is used to specify a group id number which the server should switch to after binding itself to the TCP/IP port if using the mode of operation. The option is used to specify an alternative port number to bind to if using the mode of operation. It can be specified by name or by number. Defaults to the IDENT port(113). The option is used to specify the local address to bind the socket to if using the mode of operation. Can only be specified by the IP address and not by the domain name. The default value in IPv4 is and in IPv6 it is which normally represents all the local addresses. The flag makes display the version number and the exit. The flag tells to use the System logging daemon for logging purposes. The flag tells to not reveal the operating system type it is run on and to instead always return "OTHER". The flag tells to always return instead of the or errors. The flags tells to add the optional (according to the IDENT protocol) character set designator to the reply generated. <charset> should be a valid character set as described in the MIME RFC in upper case characters. The flags tells to always return user numbers instead of user names if you wish to keep the user names a secret. The flag makes check for a file in each home directory for a user which the daemon is about to return the user name for. It that file exists then the daemon will give the error instead of the normal response. The flag makes use a mode of operation that will allow multiple requests to be processed per session. Each request is specified one per line and the responses will be returned one per line. The connection will not be closed until the connecting part closes its end of the line. The flag enables some debugging code that normally should be enabled since that breaks the protocol and may reveal information that should not be available to outsiders. INSTALLATION
is invoked either by the internet server (see inetd(1M)) for requests to connect to the IDENT port as indicated by the file (see ser- vices(4)) when using the or modes of operation or started manually by using the mode of operation. WARNINGS
The options and are currently not supported on HP-UX. EXAMPLES
Since the server is located in you can put either: or: into the file. To start it using the unsupported mode of operation, you can put a line like this into the file under the 'start' section: This will cause to be started as daemon whenever is running. It will run in the background as user 2, group 2 (user group SEE ALSO
inetd.conf(4). identd(1M)
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