RE: tunneling in linux (was: Re: [PATCH][RFC] etherip: Ethernet-i n-IPv4 tunneling)

[Russ Housley <housley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The protocol is also used in one of the BSD distributions as part of a VPN 
tunnelling solution.
Russ

At 07:54 AM 1/18/2005, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
> > > BTW, in one of your emails i
> > > noticed you cced the authors of that RFC - did they
> > respond? Whats their
> > > deployment experiences?
> >
> > The @rsa.. address bounces, the other address is still in the CC list
> > and I didn't hear from him yet :-)
>
> The correct current address for Russ is housley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx  I've cc'd him
> here.
>
> So what do you want to hear?  As the RFC says, etherIP documents work that
> Russ and I did at Xerox during the early 1990s.  It was developed and
> deployed for use in conjunction with the Xerox Encryption Unit (XEU), a
> layer 2 (Ethernet/802.3) network encryption device.  As the XEU was never a
> big seller etherIP never really got "out there", either, but it certainly
> worked in the environment for which it was intended.
>
> -Scott-