Commit fe90689f authored by Stephen Hemminger's avatar Stephen Hemminger Committed by David S. Miller

net: docs: replace IPX in tuntap documentation

IPX is no longer supported, but the example in the documentation
might useful. Replace it with IPv6.
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 7e7c076e
...@@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ Ethernet device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical ...@@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ Ethernet device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical
media, receives them from user space program and instead of sending media, receives them from user space program and instead of sending
packets via physical media sends them to the user space program. packets via physical media sends them to the user space program.
Let's say that you configured IPX on the tap0, then whenever Let's say that you configured IPv6 on the tap0, then whenever
the kernel sends an IPX packet to tap0, it is passed to the application the kernel sends an IPv6 packet to tap0, it is passed to the application
(VTun for example). The application encrypts, compresses and sends it to (VTun for example). The application encrypts, compresses and sends it to
the other side over TCP or UDP. The application on the other side decompresses the other side over TCP or UDP. The application on the other side decompresses
and decrypts the data received and writes the packet to the TAP device, and decrypts the data received and writes the packet to the TAP device,
......
Markdown is supported
0%
or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment