[Gllug] What is /dev/sit0 ?

[John Southern]

On Friday 06 Dec 2002 1:18 pm, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> > 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.

Simple Internet Transition (SIT) used as an IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel device

John

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