Re: Auto-tunnel Rant

[Dino Farinacci <dino@procket.com>]

>> This, I think, is a better argument to make regarding the possible use of 
>> automatic multicast tunneling by your downstream customers.  You might 
>> argue that multicast tunneling would lead to an increase of *UDP* traffic 
>> across your network, and that this might be something you decide to be 
>> concerned about.

    If we put auto-tunneling in the hosts, we will have a Pointcast situation
    all over again. Which is, a lot of duplicate data going over the same
    links. Which is no different than mulit-unicast. And we make no progress.

    You don't want to make networking easy for PC users, you want to make
    applications easy to use. The network plumbing should be done by skilled
    professionals, which means they are more likely to deploy tunnels correctly
    or not at all.

Dino