[e2e] tunnels with only one end point specified.

[alessandro salvatori]

On 5/11/06, Joe Touch <touch at isi.edu> wrote:
> Yes - but the trick is which one? How does the node know it's the
> nearest, or is the definition of nearest "the first node with this
> anycast address"?

that's how I intended it and how I interpreted what Jon said, but
mileage may vary :)

> If so, tunneling to the nearest anything seems to defeat the goal of
> most tunnels...

the goal of the tunnels I was thinking about is that of circumventing
legacy router clouds, as -- for instance -- IPv4 tunnels that carry
IPv6 datagrams.
-- 
Alessandro