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Subject: Re: IP over HTTP?
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Randall Stewart wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> Just curious.. as anyone did this on BSD?
> 
> If so, pointers would be nice.. if not... I may (but
> I won't go into the rant as why ;-D)
> 
> R

hmm Are you considering a network tunnelling interface?  :-)

ifconfig http0 create
ifconfig http0 remote www.freebsd.org:6667 
ifconfig http0 tunnelend myend
route add default tunnelend


Hmmm actually you could probably do this with netgraph 
or even tunnel (/dev/tun) devices right?