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What is a sit0 interface?. When we issue the ifconfig -a command in FC5 or RHEL 4, it shows a sit0 interface. What is this interface? and what are its uses?.

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sit is use to setup of point-to-point tunnel.

sit is an acronym for "simple internet transition" and is basically a device capable of encapsulating ipv6 in ipv4 datagrams.
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SEE url http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/
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