Re: missing or misdirected documentation of IPIP (2.1.129)

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Sat, 28 Nov 1998 14:00:02 +0100


> Saying Y to this option will produce two modules ( = code which can
> be inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you
> want), one encapsulator called tunnel.o and one decapsulator called
> ipip.o. You can read details in drivers/net/README.tunnel. Most

This is outdated; now the encapsulator lives together with the
decapsulator in net/ipv4/ipip.o.

> this feature very much, especially if there is a way of encrypting it
> there by making it easy to set up a Linux VPN with "floating" (dynamic)
> members, such as laptops on ppp links.

Not (most probably never) in the standard kernel, but look at
<URL:http://sites.inka.de/~bigred/devel/cipe.html>.

Olaf

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