From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 2:40:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E1E15245 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 02:39:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id KAA72585; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:45:20 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:44:05 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "Dan O'Connor" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP-in-IP encapsulation Message-ID: <19990810104405.B50549@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Dan O'Connor , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <11464.990809@fc.kiev.ua> <010001bee2cd$811bac00$0200000a@home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <010001bee2cd$811bac00$0200000a@home>; from Dan O'Connor on Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 06:13:05PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 | +----------+ +----------+ -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 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-questions" in the body of the message