netbsd-users: Re: how gif works

Subject: Re: how gif works
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/20/2002 12:14:25

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:31:48AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> does gif tunnel need to send/receive IP data to initialize?

No, gif (and gre) tunnels are statically configured and don't need any
negotiation (like ppp).

Martin