Re: [44net] Distributed BGP Announce

No. It's not. Obviously, there are multiple routers between me and any other user gateway. But my tunneled traffic goes direct from me to the other end-point via the most direct path. It is not required to go to some third location first, to then be directed back to the destination. For example, my tunneled traffic between my gateway and someone else's gateway does NOT go through amprgw. Only traffic between my gateway and the Internet goes through amprgw. But the diagram shows everything going to a regional gateway. That just adds a point of failure, more latency, probably more jitter, and certainly more complication when it comes to troubleshooting. So it has multiple costs and no benefit (with the exception of performing a proxy-gateway function for what Marc calls "assisted networks"). Michael N6MEF -----Original Message----- From: 44net-bounces+n6mef=mefox.org(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu [mailto:44net-bounces+n6mef=mefox.org@hamradio.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of K7VE - John Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:57 PM To: AMPRNet working group Subject: Re: [44net] Distributed BGP Announce (Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ Umm -- that is how TCP/IP is designed to work. The IP packet may traverse one intermediate or many, to the endpoints the only difference is transit time. ------------------------------ John D. Hays K7VE PO Box 1223, Edmonds, WA 98020-1223 <http://k7ve.org/blog> <http://twitter.com/#!/john_hays> <http://www.facebook.com/john.d.hays> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Michael E. Fox - N6MEF &lt;n6mef(a)mefox.org&gt;wrote;wrote: