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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt b/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt index 949d5dcdd9a3..0104830d5075 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt @@ -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 packets via physical media sends them to the user space program. -Let's say that you configured IPX on the tap0, then whenever -the kernel sends an IPX packet to tap0, it is passed to the application +Let's say that you configured IPv6 on the tap0, then whenever +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 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, |