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List:       openswan-users
Subject:    Re: [Openswan Users] Multicast support in openswan
From:       Paul Wouters <paul () xelerance ! com>
Date:       2006-03-25 17:46:07
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.63.0603251845340.18432 () tla ! xelerance ! com
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Tomasz Grzelak wrote:

> Lo, Lawrence napisa(a):
> > Im currently considering using IPSec in a video multicast application.
> > However Im unsure whether openswan supports multicast or not.
>
> AFAIK IPSec supports neither multicasts nor broadcasts. Unicast is supported
> only.
> To have multicasts or broadcasts you should consider adding the L2TP/PPP layer
> I suppose.

Or GRE or another form of IP-in-IP encapsulation.

Paul
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