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From: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is IP in IP supported?
Date: 25 Sep 1995 22:11:55 GMT
Organization: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
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In article <43tgfj$fbt@morgoth.sfu.ca>,
Paraskevas Polydorou <polydoro@sfu.ca> wrote:
>I have read that Linux supports the IP in IP extensions.  How about FreeBSD?

Which use of IP in IP?  FreeBSD supports IP in IP for multicast tunnels,
and allows use of a raw socket to allow user level processes access to
any invidivual IP protocol number if you need it for some other reason
(like Mobile IP).

  Bill