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Date:      Wed, 17 Apr 1996 22:06:46 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        dirk@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Dirk Froemberg)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, xadmin@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de, alf@bolzen.in-berlin.de
Subject:   Re: ip-in-ip tunnel
Message-ID:  <199604171236.WAA09223@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <m0u9VAE-0009paC@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de> from "Dirk Froemberg" at Apr 17, 96 01:12:46 pm

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Dirk Froemberg stands accused of saying:
> 
> Another approach might be to create a interface doing the encapsulation.
> The implementation of the ip-in-ip-encapsulation itself is not very
> difficult. At the moment we are a stucked "a little bit" in the
> BSD-networking-code.

Write a small program that talks to the 'tun' device and sends/receives 
IP datagrams.

For every interface tunX there's a matching device /dev/tunX, see
/sys/net/if_tun.c.

> Dirk Froemberg

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