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33.\" Author: Archie Cobbs <archie@FreeBSD.org>
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38.Dd December 7, 2001
39.Dt NG_PPTPGRE 4
40.Os
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm ng_pptpgre
43.Nd PPTP GRE protocol netgraph node type
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.In sys/types.h
46.In netgraph/ng_pptpgre.h
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm pptpgre
50node type performs Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) over IP
51for the PPTP protocol as specified by RFC 2637.
52This involves packet
53encapsulation, sequencing, acknowledgement, and an adaptive timeout
54sliding window mechanism.
55This node type does not handle any of
56the TCP control protocol or call negotiation defined by PPTP.
57.Pp
58This node type expects to receive complete IP packets,
59including the IP header, on the
60.Dq Li lower
61hook, but it transmits outgoing frames without any IP header.
62The typical use for this node type would be to connect the
63.Dq Li upper
64hook to one of the link hooks of a
65.Xr ng_ppp 4
66node, and the
67.Dq Li lower
68hook to the
69.Dq Li "inet/raw/gre"
70hook of a
71.Xr ng_ksocket 4
72node.
73.Sh HOOKS
74This node type supports the following hooks:
75.Pp
76.Bl -tag -compact -width ".Li upper"
77.It Li upper
78Connection to the upper protocol layers
79.It Li lower
80Connection to the lower protocol layers
81.El
82.Sh CONTROL MESSAGES
83This node type supports the generic control messages, plus the following:
84.Bl -tag -width indent
85.It Dv NGM_PPTPGRE_SET_CONFIG
86This command resets and configures the node for a session.
87This command takes a
88.Vt "struct ng_pptpgre_conf"
89as an argument:
90.Bd -literal
91/* Configuration for a session */
92struct ng_pptpgre_conf {
93    u_char      enabled;          /* enables traffic flow */
94    u_char      enableDelayedAck; /* enables delayed acks */
95    u_char      enableAlwaysAck;  /* always send ack with data */
96    u_char      enableWindowing;  /* enable windowing algorithm */
97    u_int16_t   cid;              /* my call id */
98    u_int16_t   peerCid;          /* peer call id */
99    u_int16_t   recvWin;          /* peer recv window size */
100    u_int16_t   peerPpd;          /* peer packet processing delay
101                                     (in 1/10 of a second) */
102};
103.Ed
104.Pp
105The
106.Va enabled
107field enables traffic flow through the node.
108The
109.Va enableDelayedAck
110field enables delayed acknowledgement (maximum 250 milliseconds), which
111is a useful optimization and should generally be turned on.
112.Va enableAlwaysAck
113field enables sending acknowledgements with every data packet, which
114is probably helpful as well.
115.Pp
116.Va enableWindowing
117enables the PPTP packet windowing mechanism specified by the protocol.
118Disabling this will cause the node to violate the protocol, possibly
119confusing other PPTP peers, but often results in better performance.
120The windowing mechanism is a design error in the PPTP protocol;
121L2TP, the successor to PPTP, removes it.
122.Pp
123The remaining fields are as supplied by the PPTP virtual call setup process.
124.It Dv NGM_PPTPGRE_GET_CONFIG
125Returns the current configuration as a
126.Vt "struct ng_pptpgre_conf" .
127.It Dv NGM_PPTPGRE_GET_STATS
128This command returns a
129.Vt "struct ng_pptpgre_stats"
130containing various node statistics.
131.It Dv NGM_PPTPGRE_CLR_STATS
132This command resets the node statistics.
133.It Dv NGM_PPTPGRE_GETCLR_STATS
134This command atomically gets and resets the node statistics, returning a
135.Vt "struct ng_pptpgre_stats" .
136.El
137.Sh SHUTDOWN
138This node shuts down upon receipt of a
139.Dv NGM_SHUTDOWN
140control message, or when both hooks have been disconnected.
141.Sh SEE ALSO
142.Xr netgraph 4 ,
143.Xr ng_ksocket 4 ,
144.Xr ng_ppp 4 ,
145.Xr ngctl 8
146.Rs
147.%A K. Hamzeh
148.%A G. Pall
149.%A W. Verthein
150.%A J. Taarud
151.%A W. Little
152.%A G. Zorn
153.%T "Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)"
154.%O RFC 2637
155.Re
156.Rs
157.%A S. Hanks
158.%A T. \&Li
159.%A D. Farinacci
160.%A P. Traina
161.%T "Generic Routing Encapsulation over IPv4 networks"
162.%O RFC 1702
163.Re
164.Sh HISTORY
165The
166.Nm
167node type was implemented in
168.Fx 4.0 .
169.Sh AUTHORS
170.An Archie Cobbs Aq archie@FreeBSD.org
171.Sh BUGS
172The node should not expect incoming GRE packets to have an IP header.
173This behavior is inherited from the (converse) behavior of raw IP sockets.
174An intermediate node that strips IP headers in one direction
175should be used instead.
176