From fe90689fed119cb55ff04e6a1df0817f0a3e9d32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 15:30:03 -0700 Subject: 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: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt') 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, -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522