Re: Automatic tunnels

[Robert.Peschi@alcatel.be]

Hi Christian,

you wrote:
> (...) [configured tunnels] don't follow the natural
> Internet topology and thus often result in rather poor
> transmission times

and a bit further:

> Automatic tunnels like 6to4 (...) have the advantage of being
> potentially "very short": the transmission between two transition
> hosts follows the IPv4 topology,

What do you mean by "following or not the IPv4 topology" ?

From the IPv4 forwarding point of view, I can't figure out such
a difference between configured or 6to4 tunnels.

I guess I must be missing you point here ?

Thanks,
Robert