IP-IP tunnels are a type of tunnels that use IP as both the encapsulating and encapsulated protocol.
IP-IP tunnels are simple and easy to configure, but they do not provide any security or authentication
features. IP-IP tunnels only support encapsulating IP traffic, which means that the payload of the
inner packet must be an IP packet. IP-IP tunnels cannot encapsulate non-IP traffic, such as Ethernet
frames or MPLS labels1.
Option A is correct, because IP-IP tunnels only support encapsulating IP traffic. Option B is incorrect,
because IP-IP tunnels only support encapsulating non-IP traffic. Option C is incorrect, because the
TTL in the inner packet is not decremented during transit to the tunnel endpoint. The TTL in the outer
packet is decremented by each router along the path, but the TTL in the inner packet is preserved
until it reaches the tunnel endpoint2. Option D is incorrect, because there are 20 bytes of overhead
with IP-IP encapsulation. The overhead consists of the header of the outer packet, which has a fixed
size of 20 bytes for IPv43.
Reference:
1: IP-IP Tunneling 2: What is tunneling? | Tunneling in networking 3: IPv4 - Header