---
name: "freeDiameterd"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "freediameterd"
version: "1.5.0-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/freeDiameterd"
---

# freeDiameterd(1)

daemon for the Diameter protocol

## NAME

**freeDiameterd** - daemon for the Diameter protocol

## SYNOPSIS

```
freeDiameterd [options]
```

## DESCRIPTION

**Diameter is a protocol designed to carry Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) payload. It is an evolution of the RADIUS protocol (as the name suggests).**

**This simple daemon parses the command line and initializes the freeDiameter framework. Use it for your Diameter server & agent components. In case of Diameter clients, you probably will prefer linking the libfdcore directly with your client application that must be made Diameter-aware.**

**Diameter is a protocol used in the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) for 4G / LTE networks.**

## 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)**

**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\>**

## AUTHOR

**This manual page was written by Ruben Undheim \<ruben.undheim@gmail.com\> for the Debian project (and may be used by others).**