Peering with multiple tunnel providers

[Pekka Savola]

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Matthew Drobnak wrote:
> Here was the goal:
> 
> I'm at 3ffe:b80:25d:1:blah. I want to get to 3ffe:c25:....blah. Now I 
> have a conneciton to freenet6, which is all of 3ffe:b00/22(or something 
> like that), and a connection to say Hurricane Electric. For this 
> example, say 3ffe:c25:..blah was a tunnel from Hurricane Electric. I 
> would like some way to be able to tell this, and be able to route 
> traffic to the provider closest to my destination, OR, the only provider 
> who actually has a connection to my destination. Is there any other way 
> to do this without BGP? If so, I'm all ears. :)

BGP is pretty much required.

But it won't help you unless you have very good source address selection 
implementation.. So I don't think it's worth the trouble.

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