NAME

       danted - network proxyserver

SYNOPSIS

       danted [-DLVdhnv] [-N number] [-f file] [-p file]

DESCRIPTION

       Dante implements the socks standard and can function as a firewall between networks.

       Dante relays TCP and UDP both from outside the network and in, and from inside and out.

       The options are as follows:

       -D     Dante will detach from the controlling terminal and run in the background as a system daemon.

       -L     Displays the license Dante comes under.

       -Nnumber
              Dante  will  fork  of  number "main servers" when starting.  This can be used for servers that are
              extremely busy, or to provide a (very) poor mans redundancy setup, as Dante will try to make these
              "main servers" as independent of each others as possible.  It is unlikely that setting this number
              to anything higher than the number of CPUs will improve performance.

       -V     Verifies config file and exits.

       -dnumber
              Sets the level of debugging, zero to disable.

       -ffile Dante will read its configuration from file.

       -h     Shows the currently valid options.

       -n     Disables TCP keep-alive  messages.   Normally  Dante  enables  TCP  keep-alive  messages  so  that
              connections  from  machines  that  have crashed or for other reasons no longer can be reached time
              out.  Note that this can take several hours.  See also the "timeout" option in danted.conf(5).

       -pfile Dante will write the pid of the main process to this file.  file.

       -v     Displays Dante version.

SIGNALS

       SIGHUP Reload the configuration file.  Will also reopen logfiles.

       SIGINFO/SIGUSR1
              Print some information about the servers current state and clients.

ENVIRONMENT

       TMPDIR Use TMPDIR for temporary files.  Dante will use this directory  for  lockfiles  and  memory-mapped
              files.   It  is  recommended  that  TMPDIR  be  set to a (local) filesystem with low latency.  The
              directory should have read/write/execute permission by both the privileged and unprivileged userid
              (as specified in /etc/danted.conf), but no other non-privileged users.

FILES

       /etc/danted.conf
              Dante server configuration file.

AUTHORS

       For inferno Nettverk A/S:
          Michael Shuldman
          Karl-Andre' Skevik

SEE ALSO

       dante.conf(5), danted.conf(5)

       Information about new releases and other related issues  can  be  found  on  the  Dante  WWW  home  page:
       http://www.inet.no/dante/

       Information    about   commercial   support   can   be   found   on   the   Dante   WWW   support   page:
       http://www.inet.no/dante/support.html

BUGS

       See the accompanying BUGS file.  New ones should be reported to dante-bugs@inet.no.

                                                  July 29 2013                                         DANTED(8)