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4 .TH IPTUNNEL 8 "SEPTEMBER 2009" "" ""
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6 .\" Man page written by Jiri Popelka <jpopelka AT redhat DOT com>
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8 .SH NAME
9
10 .B iptunnel
11 \- creates, deletes, and displays configured tunnels
12
13 .SH SYNOPSIS
14 .B /usr/sbin/iptunnel
15 .RB [< operation >]
16 .RB [< args >]
17
18 .SH NOTE
19 .P
20 This program is obsolete. For replacement check \fBip tunnel\fR.
21
22 .SH DESCRIPTION
23 The \fBiptunnel\fR
24 command creates configured tunnels for sending and receiving
25 IPV6 or IPV4 packets that are encapsulated as the payload of an IPV4
26 datagram.
27
28 The
29 .B iptunnel
30 command can perform one of the following operations:
31
32 .B create
33 \- create a tunnel interface, which you must subsequently configure.
34
35 .B delete
36 \- delete a tunnel interface. You must disable the tunnel before you can delete it.
37
38 .B show
39 \- show the tunnel attributes (name, tunnel end points, next hop for tunneled packets).
40
41 .SH SEE ALSO
42 .BR ip (8).