Re: mast(4)

Michael Richardson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.freeswan.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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>>>>> "John" == John S Denker <[email protected]> writes:
    >> It my intention to rewrite ipip and sit to use mast as the front end
    >> to them.

    John> Why not GRE?  (See below for more on this.)

  Because GRE is more general, and as such, is expected to deal with all
of the other things, i.e. IPv6, IPX, etc.. I don't want to test this stuff
on the first pass.

    John> Is there any reason to believe ipip is easier or better than GRE?
    John> Is there any reason to believe sit is easier or better than GRE?

  sit has some other behaviour that it supports, namely NMBA 6to4 things.

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