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Work within the GRE/PPTP/L2TP/IPIP tunnels
Dpi doesn't parse the tunnels 1), since the traffic of different operators or clients with a conflicting IPs can be transmitted, but for non-standard connection (before BRAS), tunneling parsing is necessary.
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tagged VLAN/QINQ and MPLS traffic are not considered as tunnel