On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Ichiro Okajima wrote:
> I would like to know how an IPv6 router processes a tunneling packet
> in which the destination address of outer packet is a global address
> of one of interfaces and the destination address of inner packet
> is link local address such as solicited node multicast address.
> 
> Is tunneling of packets destined for link local address just prohibited?

No, it's allowed.
 
> If it were allowed, does a router decapsulate the inner packet and send
> it to the interface which the destination address of the outer packet
> indicates?

I believe the answer is "the tunnel pseudo-interface performing 
decapsulation".  Whether that's useful is another story..
 
> How about in the case that the destination address of the outer packet
> is subnet router anycast address?

The same.

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