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From: Antony Mawer <fbsd-current@mawer.org>
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Cc: Randall Stewart <rrs@cisco.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: IP over HTTP?
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On 15/08/2007 9:22 AM, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Randall Stewart wrote:
>> 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)
> 
> 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?

Isn't this the purpose of the "super tunnelling" daemon currently being 
developed as a Google SoC project?

     http://wiki.freebsd.org/SuperTunnelDaemon

--Antony