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Network Working Group                                         O. Gsenger
Internet-Draft                                            March 10, 2007
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                        Anycast stream relaying
                     draft-gsenger-anycast-relay-00

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Abstract

   The anycast tunneling (anytun) protocol defines a protocol used for
   communication between unicast clients and anycast servers.  It can be
   used for tunneling information between 2 clients or in relay mode to
   transmit data form the client over the servers to a third party not
   using the protocol and vice versa.












































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1.  Introduction

   anytun defines a Host Anycast Service as defined in rfc1546.  It can
   be used to build high scalable and redundant tunnel services.  It
   supports both UDP and TCP connections.  Additionally to the
   possibility of establashing an unicast TCP connection over an anycast
   address as suggested in rfc1546, it supports real anycast TCP
   connections with state syncronisation and heuristic state forecast.
   It also has a relay mode, that makes it possible, that only one of
   the connection endpoints has to use the anytun protocol.  This can be
   used to make connections through Firewalls or behind a NAT Router

   RFC3068 [1] DTD.

1.1.  Tunneling Mode

   In tunneling mode the payload of the anytun packet is transmitted
   from one unicast host to the anycast server.  This server makes a
   routing descision based on the underlying protocol and transmits a
   new anytun package to one or more clients depending on the routing
   descition.

1.2.  Relay Mode




























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2.  References

   [1]  Huitema, C., "An Anycast Prefix for 6to4 Relay Routers",
        RFC 3068, June 2001.















































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Author's Address

   Othmar Gsenger
   Sporgasse 6
   Graz  8010
   AT

   Phone:
   Email: otti@wirdorange.org
   URI:   http://anytun.org/









































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