On 2016-07-20, Russell Sutherland <russell.sutherl...@utoronto.ca> wrote: > I noticed that the etherip pseudo-device appeared with OpenBSD 5.9 which is > intended for tunnelling. > > Prior to this I have been using the gif pseudo device to accomplish much the > same thing (in my case L2 over L3). > > Apart from specifying the mtu to lower value to avoid problems with larger > frames, is there any real advantage with the new etherip device?
Yes, you won't have to reconfigure when that functionality is removed from gif.
