Re: a question about tunnels

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, marcelo bagnulo wrote:
> The question is: what is the behaviour of a host, that doesn't have any
> configured tunnel, when it receives a tunneled packet addressed to him (both
> destination addresses, inner and outer, are assigned to the host)?

IPv6-in-IPv4 configured tunneling spec, 
draft-ietf-v6ops-mech-v2-02.txt, at least discards them.  And IMHO 
that's what should be done, unless one specifies a specific tunneling 
speudo-interface which is open to the whole world and accepts specific 
kind of packets (a bad idea, I think).

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