FREEDIAMETERD(1)

💖 FREEDIAMETERD 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're about to talk about the freeDiameterd manual page — that's the freeDiameterd daemon, and she is the moment for the Diameter protocol. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

freeDiameterd — daemon for the Diameter protocol 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

freeDiameterd [options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options go in, daemon comes out. periodt 💅

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so, Diameter? it's a protocol designed to carry Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) payload. she's an evolution of the RADIUS protocol — as the name literally suggests, iykyk. 🔥

this simple daemon parses the command line and initializes the freeDiameter framework. use it for your Diameter server & agent components, bestie. 🫶

but wait — if you're doing Diameter clients? you probably will prefer linking the libfdcore directly with your client application that must be made Diameter-aware. no cap, that's the move. 💜

and for the lore: Diameter is a protocol used in the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) for 4G / LTE networks. iconic behavior fr fr. 🌈

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⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

• -h, --help — Print help and exit. 🆘
• -V, --version — Print version and exit. 🏷️
• *-c, --config=filename* — Read configuration from this file instead of the default location (/etc/freeDiameter/freeDiameter.conf). 📂
• -D, --daemon — Start program in background. 👻
• *-p, --pidfile=filename* — Write PID to filename. 📝
• -s, --syslog — Write log output to syslog (instead of stdout). 📡

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🔍 Debug:

• -l, --dbglocale — Set the locale for error messages. 🌍
• -d, --debug — Increase verbosity of debug messages if default logger is used. 📢
• -q, --quiet — Decrease verbosity if default logger is used. 🤫
• -f, --dbg_func <func> — Enable all traces within the function <func>. 🧵
• -F, --dbg_file <file.c> — Enable all traces within the file <file.c> (basename match). 📄
• -g, --dbg_gnutls <int> — Enable GNU TLS debug at level <int>. 🔐

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💌 AUTHOR 💌

This manual page was written by Ruben Undheim <ruben.undheim@gmail.com> for the Debian project (and may be used by others). thank you ruben, you ate. 👑

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this lil masterpiece is the freeDiameterd manual, dated 28 October 2025 — so go forth, spin up your server & agent components, and slay. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶