Re: Tricky Routing advice needed

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On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 02:57:24PM +0200, Walter Zimmer wrote:
> We have been assigned a task to connect a remote host over an
> access network to the main network. To put this in ASCII art:
> 
> remote host             main network
>     ---                    ---
>     | |                    | |
>     ---                    ---
>      |                      |
>      |                      |
>      |                      |
>     ---                    ---
>     | |---access network---| |
>     ---                    ---
>   router1 (linux)         router2 (linux)
> ...
> - ARP
> - DHCP
> - IP
> 
> ...must all work transparently.
> 
> Tunneling is not an option, since the packets must be inspectable
> by the access network.

If you don't tunnel, how will your packet travel through the "access
network"?  Whatever you do to transport those packets between router1
and router2, it is a form of "tunnel" --- unless you have discovered a
practical way to teleport!


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Mojahed
System Administrator, Agni Systems Limited
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