Tunnels...

Bob Fink fink@es.net
Mon, 14 Feb 2000 13:11:23 -0800


At 03:57 PM 2/14/2000 -0500, Greg Maxwell wrote:
>On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Bob Fink wrote:
>
> > Jason,
> >
> > At 10:39 PM 2/13/2000 -0500, Jason wrote:
> > >Is it acceptable for me to dish out tunnels as an end site, and if I do
> > >this, should I document them with tunnel attributes.
> >
> > If you are a pNLA end-site (versue a transit) with a /48 then the only
> > tunnels would be for parts of your own network, i.e., some other SLA ID.
>
>Since only my home is on the 6bone right now (as opposed to my work), I'm
>not reall one to comment here but...
>
>I don't agree, what about peering? Even end-sites can peer with other end
>sites to exchange traffic among themselves. This is useful in the face of
>v6-in-v4 tunnels causing very unoptimim paths between end-sites. This is
>also useful when they are IPv4 peers in 'real life'/


I agree with you. I was assuming the other use for delegation as he said 
dish out, not peer.

Bob