NEXTEPC-PGWD(8)

✨ NAME ✨

nextepc-pgwd — the Packet Data Network Gateway, bestie 💖 (that's EPC / LTE core network, iykyk)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

nextepc-pgwd [options]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So okay, nextepc-pgwd is the daemon for the Packet Data Network Gateway (that's PGWD, keep up 💅) and it's part of nextepc. She's a whole main character in the EPC cast, no cap.

And the PGWD is literally the gateway between the EPC and the external packet data network — think the public Internet?? yeah her. She serves three interfaces and she serves them iconically:

• the S5 interface towards the S-GW
• the SGi interface towards the Internet
• and the S7 interface towards the PCRF

three interfaces, one queen, periodt 👑

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -v — show version 🎀 (she'll tell you who she is)
• -h — show help 🫶 (when u need a lil hand)
• -d — start as daemon 🧚 (background vibes, she's busy)
• -f <conf> — set the configuration file name 📄
• -l <log_file> — log file path to be logged to 📝✨
• -p <pid_file> — PID file path 🍓

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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). shoutout to him fr fr 🙌

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and that's the whole page bestie, ur officially an expert 💜 this was the nextepc-pgwd(8) manual, dated 02 April 2026, NEXTEPC-PGWD(8) edition 🌈 mwah, go read it again, obsessed with u 🎀💖