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Re: Routing with 6to4 *and* a tunnel



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>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Singer <elf@buici.com> writes:
    Marc> How does listening to BGP help you?  If you have to push data through
    Marc> the tunnel, doesn't HE have to perform the routing for you?

    >> BGP tells me what data should go through the tunnel to HE.
    >> That also means that you won't send data to HE that they can't deliver.
    >> 
    >> I also have tunnels to some other sites (that I manage), which also do
    >> IPv6, and also have tunnels to HE, so I let BGP pick the right route.

    Marc> Let me understand this correctly: this strategy works *because* you
    Marc> use 6to4 addresses on your workstations.  I suppose it would also work
    Marc> if you used the /64 address block allocated by HE (or some other
    Marc> delegated tunnel broker network), but that would mean packets would
    Marc> return through the tunnel instead of through the IPv4 network.

  Yes, that's right.
  If you can't get native IPv6, 6to4 is better than tunnels.

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