[e2e] tunnels with only one end point specified.

[alessandro salvatori]

On 5/11/06, Joe Touch <touch at isi.edu> wrote:
> alessandro salvatori wrote:
> > On 5/11/06, Joe Touch <touch at isi.edu> wrote:
> >> You can setup nodes that decapsulate everything, but that needs to be
> >> setup in advance (back where you started).
> >
> > i disagree. for the "nearest" case, it would be enough to allocate a
> > flag that tells "decapsulate me, if you can"
>
> For any case such a flag would be useful, but if the flag passes through
> more than one such node, it'd decapsulate there.

it wouldn't pass through more than one such node, as the first one
would decapsulate the inner datagram. the flag is in the envelope
header, once the inner datagram is decapsulated the flag is not there
any more.

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Alessandro