"William Herrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Loose and strict source routing existed in IPv4 for a reason. There > were some security issues, some performance issues and the network got > wider than they could support but they weren't fundamentally a bad > idea. Indeed, if loose source routing was still valid, our map-encap > schemes might not need the encap part at all.
This is IMO an important point. You can get the same function as a tunnel, but without requiring the other end to decap. In NIIA we call it routing hint, but it has basically the same function. Regards, Bengt -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
