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237other programs. 237other programs.
238 238
239The default is 47 (GRE), which has a good chance of tunneling 239The default is 47 (GRE), which has a good chance of tunneling
240through firewalls (but note that gvpe's rawip protocol is not GRE 240through firewalls (but note that gvpe's rawip protocol is not GRE
241compatible). Other common choices are 50 (IPSEC, ESP), 51 (IPSEC, AH), 4 241compatible). Other common choices are 50 (IPSEC, ESP), 51 (IPSEC, AH), 4
242(IPIP tunnels) or 98 (ENCAP, rfc1241) 242(IPIP tunnels) or 98 (ENCAP, rfc1241).
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244Many versions of Linux seem to have a bug that causes them to reorder
245packets for some ip protocols (GRE, ESP) but not for others (AH), so
246choose wisely (that is, use 51, AH).
243 247
244=item http-proxy-host = hostname/ip 248=item http-proxy-host = hostname/ip
245 249
246The C<http-proxy-*> family of options are only available if gvpe was 250The C<http-proxy-*> family of options are only available if gvpe was
247compiled with the C<--enable-http-proxy> option and enable tunneling of 251compiled with the C<--enable-http-proxy> option and enable tunneling of
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420 424
421Allow direct connections to this node. See C<deny-direct> for more info. 425Allow direct connections to this node. See C<deny-direct> for more info.
422 426
423=item compress = yes|true|on | no|false|off 427=item compress = yes|true|on | no|false|off
424 428
429For the current node, this specified whether it will accept compressed
430packets, and for all other nodes, this specifies whether to try to
425Wether to compress data packets sent to this node (default: C<yes>). 431compress data packets sent to this node (default: C<yes>). Compression is
426Compression is really cheap even on slow computers and has no size 432really cheap even on slow computers, has no size overhead at all and will
427overhead at all, so enabling this is often a good idea. 433only be used when the other side supports compression, so enabling this is
434often a good idea.
428 435
429=item connect = ondemand | never | always | disabled 436=item connect = ondemand | never | always | disabled
430 437
431Sets the connect mode (default: C<always>). It can be C<always> (always 438Sets the connect mode (default: C<always>). It can be C<always> (always
432try to establish and keep a connection to the given node), C<never> 439try to establish and keep a connection to the given node), C<never>
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558The value specified using this directive will be passed to the C<if-up> 565The value specified using this directive will be passed to the C<if-up>
559script in the environment variable C<IFUPDATA>. 566script in the environment variable C<IFUPDATA>.
560 567
561=item inherit-tos = yes|true|on | no|false|off 568=item inherit-tos = yes|true|on | no|false|off
562 569
563Wether to inherit the TOS settings of packets sent to the tunnel when 570Whether to inherit the TOS settings of packets sent to the tunnel when
564sending packets to this node (default: C<yes>). If set to C<yes> then 571sending packets to this node (default: C<yes>). If set to C<yes> then
565outgoing tunnel packets will have the same TOS setting as the packets sent 572outgoing tunnel packets will have the same TOS setting as the packets sent
566to the tunnel device, which is usually what you want. 573to the tunnel device, which is usually what you want.
567 574
568=item max-retry = positive-number 575=item max-retry = positive-number

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