[Babel-users] Some thoughts about Babel (feature requests)

[Dave Taht]

I guess I am puzzled about the need for tunnels in the architecture.
(I found the usage of "vpn" confusing, to me a vpn offers additional
features like encryption).

You connect to each node (all 1400 of them?) to gather data via
nodewatcher?  (Why not just have a dedicated "control" port?)

or are the vpns merely to give you a single address space in the case
of a partitioned network and the other external links holding it
together?

... somewhat unrelated ...

I'm dying to know if ipv6 packets can transit all these different
product and link types from one edge of the network to
another..........