Bug#842346: xl2tpd: Please upgrade xl2tpd to upstream 1.3.7.
Package: xl2tpd
Version: 1.3.6+dfsg-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Some ISPs allow a customer to connect to an L2TP LNS over an arbitrary link,
e.g. 3/4G wireless, and will then route IP6 and fixed IP addresses over this
using PPP. Please note that this usage is distinct from IPsec etc. This is
useful since it allows a mail server etc. to expose itself to the Internet
even if its normal copper or fibre link has been interrupted, since it gets
around the routing/protocol restrictions that wireless and many ADSL links
enforce.
There is a known issue with xl2tpd 1.3.6 where if the bearer (wireless etc.)
goes down the PPP daemon is not reliably terminated, so it cannot restart
when the bearer comes back up. Upstream's 1.3.7 fixes this.
I have successfully built 1.3.7 and it has been running for a month on a live
system without issues. I've also tested it on development systems, and can
confirm that the L2TP state and embedded PPP daemon correctly track bearer
events.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)
Kernel: Linux 4.1.19-v7+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages xl2tpd depends on:
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u6
ii libpcap0.8 1.6.2-2
ii ppp 2.4.6-3.1
xl2tpd recommends no packages.
xl2tpd suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/init.d/xl2tpd changed [not included]
/etc/xl2tpd/l2tp-secrets [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/xl2tpd/l2tp-secrets'
/etc/xl2tpd/xl2tpd.conf changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
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