Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:40:46 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: Eugene Polovnikov <paranoid@brain-fag.org>, net@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nos-tun & multihomed machines Message-ID: <20010316124046.D67000@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20010316105026.A12010@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from asmodai@wxs.nl on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:50:26AM %2B0100 References: <20010316112914.A50671@zssm.zp.ua> <20010316105026.A12010@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:50:26AM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > -On [20010316 10:43], Eugene Polovnikov (paranoid@brain-fag.org) wrote: > Hello, Engene! Hope you are doing well! :-) > >Please, review the following PR: > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=25847 > > > >Same patch is in the attach. > > Just a question, > > the gif interface now part of the system does tunneling as well in as > much the same way as nos-tun does. Does gif work for the multihomed > case? [I'll otherwise when not getting any responses dig up the answer > myself.] > Yes, gif(4) works the same way, and multihomed enabled (see gifconfig(8)), with the exception that it always uses the IPPROTO_IPV4 (protocol 4) for encapsulating of IPv4 payload. > I ask this because it serves no purpose having an IPv4-only [as far as > my knowledge goes] tunnel application, whilst we have a more flexible > new solution present. > I fully agree. > Translated, does gif do what nos-tun can do and more? Yes? Let's rip > out nos-tun and support the other well maintained solution. > Except that it does not allow to use proto 94 (the default for nos-tun). Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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