RFC 3620:The TUNNEL Profile
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... source route, with the outermost element being stripped off and used to decide the next hop. The innermost, empty "tunnel" element ...


... session, and the stripped (inner) element is sent to start the next hop. In this case, the peer is considered a "proxy" (meaning that the next paragraph is applicable). ...


... 550 Requested action not taken (E.g., next hop could be contacted, but malformed greeting or no TUNNEL profile advertised.) ...



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