IP encapsulation mechanism

C44000
concept

An IP encapsulation mechanism is a method by which one IP packet is wrapped inside another protocol header (often another IP header) to enable tunneling, virtualization, or transport across differing network infrastructures.

Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
network tunneling technique 1

Instances (2)

Instance Via concept surface
IP over InfiniBand
IPsec over TCP network tunneling technique