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Date:      Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:44:05 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IP-in-IP encapsulation
Message-ID:  <19990810104405.B50549@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <010001bee2cd$811bac00$0200000a@home>; from Dan O'Connor on Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 06:13:05PM -0700
References:  <11464.990809@fc.kiev.ua> <010001bee2cd$811bac00$0200000a@home>

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On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 06:13:05PM -0700, Dan O'Connor wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance...
> 
> I've seen this IP-in-IP thing mentioned before, but what is it used for?
> 
> Seems kinda pointless--like zipping up a zip file.
> 
> --Dan

If could be used to ``tunnel'' private networks over Internet:

+--------------+            +--------+            +--------------+
|192.168.1.0/24|         +--|Internet|--+         |192.168.2.0/24|
+---------+----+        /   +--------+   \        +----+---------+
           \           /                  \           /
         +--+-------+ /                    \ +-------+--+
         | Router 1 |/                      \| Router 2 |
         +----------+                        +----------+

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