ng_pptpgre(4) - Manual pages

NAME

ng_pptpgre — PPTP GRE protocol netgraph node type

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <netgraph/ng_pptpgre.h>

The pptpgre node type performs Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) over IP for the PPTP protocol as specified by RFC 2637. This involves packet encapsulation, sequencing, acknowledgement, and an adaptive timeout sliding window mechanism. This node type does not handle any of the TCP control protocol or call negotiation defined by PPTP.

This node type expects to receive complete IP packets, including the IP header, on the “lower” hook, but it transmits outgoing frames without any IP header. The typical use for this node type would be to connect the “upper” hook to one of the link hooks of a ng_ppp(4) node, and the “lower” hook to the “inet/raw/gre” hook of a ng_ksocket(4) node.

HOOKS

This node type supports the following hooks:

session_hhhh: Session 0xhhhh data packets to the upper protocol layers
upper: Same as session_hhhh, but for single session with configurable cid (legacy)
lower: Connection to the lower protocol layers

CONTROL MESSAGES

This node type supports the generic control messages, plus the following:

NGM_PPTPGRE_SET_CONFIG (setconfig)

This command resets and configures hook for a session. If corresponding session_hhhh hook is not connected, upper hook will be configured. This command takes a struct ng_pptpgre_conf as an argument:

/* Configuration for a session */
struct ng_pptpgre_conf {
    u_char      enabled;          /* enables traffic flow */
    u_char      enableDelayedAck; /* enables delayed acks */
    u_char      enableAlwaysAck;  /* always include ack with data */
    u_char      enableWindowing;  /* enable windowing algorithm */
    uint16_t    cid;              /* my call id */
    uint16_t    peerCid;          /* peer call id */
    uint16_t    recvWin;          /* peer recv window size */
    uint16_t    peerPpd;          /* peer packet processing delay
                                     (in 1/10 of a second) */
};

The enabled field enables traffic flow through the node. The enableDelayedAck field enables delayed acknowledgement (maximum 250 milliseconds), which is a useful optimization and should generally be turned on. enableAlwaysAck field enables sending acknowledgements with every data packet, which is probably helpful as well.

enableWindowing enables the PPTP packet windowing mechanism specified by the protocol. Disabling this will cause the node to violate the protocol, possibly confusing other PPTP peers, but often results in better performance. The windowing mechanism is a design error in the PPTP protocol; L2TP, the successor to PPTP, removes it.

The remaining fields are as supplied by the PPTP virtual call setup process.

NGM_PPTPGRE_GET_CONFIG (getconfig)