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Hamzeh 139.%A G. Pall 140.%A W. Verthein 141.%A J. Taarud 142.%A W. Little 143.%A G. Zorn 144.%T "Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)" 145.%O RFC 2637 146.Re 147.Rs 148.%A S. Hanks 149.%A T. \&Li 150.%A D. Farinacci 151.%A P. Traina 152.%T "Generic Routing Encapsulation over IPv4 networks" 153.%O RFC 1702 154.Re 155.Sh BUGS 156The node should not expect incoming GRE packets to have an IP header. 157This behavior is inherited from the (converse) behavior of raw IP sockets. 158An intermediate node that strips IP headers in one direction 159should be used instead. 160.Sh HISTORY 161The 162.Nm 163node type was implemented in 164.Fx 4.0 . 165.Sh AUTHORS 166.An Archie Cobbs Aq archie@FreeBSD.org 167