Re: Opportunistic Tunneling

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> >TSP requires that ISPs set up tunnel servers and tunnel brokers.  
> >6to4 and Teredo don't.  (Teredo server doesn't pass through traffic so
> >a couple may be enough.)  6to4 works automatically between other 6to4
> >nodes; TSP does not.  Teredo works automatically between Teredo nodes
> >after the server has been contacted to get the public IPv6 address.
> 
> 	6to4 requires 6to4 relay routers to be present on the internet,
> 	otherwise 6to4 won't work (or return route will be very inefficient).
> 	teredo requires teredo servers/relays to be present on the internet,
> 	otherwise teredo client won't work.

Relay routers are needed to communicate with native Internet, not 
between the users of the same transition technology.

Both 6to4 and Teredo can work, to an extent, when relay routers don't 
exist.  TSP can't.

There is path optimization between 6to4 nodes and between Teredo 
nodes.  There is no such thing with TSP (for the good and the bad).  
I.e., all the traffic must pass through the server/broker.

These are the main differences with "opportunistic" vs
"non-opportunistic" methods.

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