INITIATING PEER-TO-PEER TUNNELS

Initiating peer-to-peer tunnels between clients in a mobility domain. Client traffic in a mobility domain normally passes from the initiating client to an access node, and from the access node through a tunnel to a controller, and then through another tunnel from the controller to the destination access node, and the destination client. When initiated by the controller, the access nodes establish a peer-to-peer tunnel for suitable client traffic, bypassing the "slow" tunnels through the controller with a "fast" peer-to-peer tunnel. Traffic through this "fast" tunnel may be initiated once the tunnel is established, or traffic for the "fast" tunnel may be queued up until traffic has completed passing through the "slow" tunnel.