When a L3 link is desired as one of the available uplink paths, such as an LTE link, RPT (Remote Protocol Tunneling), a tunnel available within InstaMesh is utilized to pass the data over that L3 link and back to the local Rajant network. The connection/reconnection of this tunnel also becomes a non-event, as traffic has potentially many alternate routes out to the network, while the tunnel is established, as described above.