[Gllug] What is /dev/sit0 ?

[Andrew Halliwell]

> Hi all,
> 
> While aimlessly poking (or should that be peeking) around, I noticed that 
> hwinfo reports four network interfaces: lo, eth0, eth1, sit0 . So, that's the 
> loopback, and two ethernet cards - so far so good... But what is sit0? A 
> google suggests is something to do with IP6 or ppp tunnels, but I don't see 
> why either of these would be set up here.

It's a device used for IP tunnelling, iirc. It acts as an interface in its
own right, once started and configured, I think...

Can't say for sure, never used it.

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