Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:39:48 -0700 From: stephen@dino.dnsalias.com (Stephen J. Bevan) To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>, FreeBSD-net@FreeBSD.org, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> Subject: Re: Problems with gif tunnels Message-ID: <17066.31012.973142.395772@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20050608095703.GM64194@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20050607093717.GA76296@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20050607100958.GU41050@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <20050607094848.GB16223@stack.nl> <20050607231218.GD64194@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20050608084946.GI41050@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <20050608095703.GM64194@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes: > It's currently pushing 7:30 pm, and I was going to send out a reply > tomorrow. But indeed, it seems that Linux people prefer GRE tunnels, > we prefer (with good reason) IP tunnels, ... Like FreeBSD, Linux supports both GRE and IPIP. It is not a Linux thing to use on over the other, rather GRE is/was much more common for creating tunnels because a) it is multiprotocol and so can easily carry Appletalk or IPX as well as IP and b) because of a) Cisco docs are full of example of how to setup GRE tunnels which means almost any network sysadmin is familar with using them and so often defaults to using them. Now that Appletalk and IPX are (almost) a distant memory and Cisco hegemony is not quite so strong then IPIP are becoming more common.
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