debian man page for ipip

IPIP(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   IPIP(1)

NAME
       ipip - an IP over IP encapsulation daemon

SYNOPSIS
       ipip

DESCRIPTION
       This  is  a user-space daemon that supports encapsulation of IP over IP.  Modern Linux kernels provide this ability in the kernel, but con-
       sume an interface per encapsulated link.  This can be impractical for virtual networks built up of a large number  of  encapsulated  links,
       such as is the case with the amateur radio net-44 network.  The ipip daemon is often a better solution for these environments.

       There  is  very	little	documentation on the daemon at this time.  Look for the README file in /usr/doc/ipip, and the example config files
       also in that tree.

AUTHOR
       This package was originally written by Mike Westerhof for SunOS.  Bdale Garbee ported it to HP-UX and BSD/OS.  Ron Atkinson and	John  Paul
       Morrison then provided the tweaks for Linux.

       The  package  is  currently  once  again  being	maintained  by Bdale Garbee, both as "upstream maintainer" and as maintainer of the Debian
       GNU/Linux ipip package.

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