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• Subject: Re: even more tunneling
• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:45:33 -0500
• References: <1014304802.1080.53.camel@l...>

Is April here already?

Tom P

[Simon St.Laurent]

> As long as we're breaking through firewalls in a really verbose way, this
might be interesting.  Doesn't even need XML.
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Title : IP over MIME
> Author(s) : D. Eastlake 3rd
> Filename : draft-eastlake-ip-mime-06.txt
> Pages : 8
> Date : 29-Jan-02
>
> The MIME encoding of IP packets is standardized so they can
> conveniently be sent via MAIL, HTTP, etc.  This may be convenient for
> transmitting packets for analysis or for creating application level
> tunnels.
>
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-eastlake-ip-mime-06.txt
>
> -------------------------------------------
>
> From the draft itself:
>
> --------------------------------------
> An unambiguous MIME encoding for IP datagrams is useful in their
> transmission for monitoring, analysis, debugging, or illustrative
> purposes.
>
> In addition, IP over MIME can be effective as one component in
> creating application level tunnels including those that bypass
> firewall protections [RFC 3093].  With the aid of cooperative
> software running within a firewall, unrestricted, if slow, IP
> connectivity can be established.
>

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