Subject: Re: NetBSD vs. RFC 1241
To: None <tech-net@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
List: tech-net
Date: 09/18/1997 12:11:10
In article <199709180010.RAA03003@skank.juniper.net>,
	Dennis Ferguson <dennis@juniper.net> writes:
> This isn't the same thing.

Are you sure about that?

> IP multicast uses IP protocol 4 encapsulation (i.e. IPPROTO_IPIP), as does
> IP mobility.

Because the Linux uses IPIP, from "linux/drivers/net/new_tunnel.c":

        iph->protocol           =       IPPROTO_IPIP;

> RFC 1241 is IP protocol 98 encapsulation (i.e. IPPROTO_ENCAP).

Or maybe the documentation of the Linux tunnel driver is wrong?

Anyway, what I need is IPIP what would conflict with the multicast
tunneling. :-(

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/