net: docs: replace IPX in tuntap documentation

Linux kernel mirror (for testing) git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

kernel os linux

IPX is no longer supported, but the example in the documentation
might useful. Replace it with IPv6.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Stephen Hemminger and committed by

David S. Miller 6 years ago fe90689f 7e7c076e

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tuntap.txt

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Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt

··· 204 204 media, receives them from user space program and instead of sending 205 205 packets via physical media sends them to the user space program. 206 206 207 - Let's say that you configured IPX on the tap0, then whenever 208 - the kernel sends an IPX packet to tap0, it is passed to the application 207 + Let's say that you configured IPv6 on the tap0, then whenever 208 + the kernel sends an IPv6 packet to tap0, it is passed to the application 209 209 (VTun for example). The application encrypts, compresses and sends it to 210 210 the other side over TCP or UDP. The application on the other side decompresses 211 211 and decrypts the data received and writes the packet to the TAP device,