Re: Automatic tunnels

[itojun@iijlab.net]

>The problem is that I don't think most of the ISPs will invest in
>offering tunnel services, because they will cost almost the same
>as providing native service, with the only difference of the customer
>CPE and the BAS in case of xDSL or similar services. May be some
>will start with tunnels until they upgrade their BAS, and then will
>ask their customers to pay an additional fee for moving to a native
>service. Is a possible business model, but as said, who knows.

	we at IIJ use PC with BSD operating system for terminating our
	tunnelling service customers.  required investment is minimal, and 1
	PC can terminate > 10000 tunnels if you want to (we don't do 10000,
	but freenet6 does it).  it is an added value to our IPv4 service (it
	will look more tasty).  other japanese ISPs are doing similar things.
	so i guess i disagree with you on "most of the ISPs won't invest on
	tunnel service".

itojun