[115969] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Public/testing 4to6 gateway?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Ernst)
Tue Jul 14 10:21:26 2009
In-Reply-To: <59C47493-90A1-41EC-A0F3-A40E1D93E8FE@daork.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:20:31 -0700
From: Rick Ernst <nanog@shreddedmail.com>
To: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Pedantry is not necessarily a bad thing, especially when the student doesn't
know the right questions to ask. :)
6in4 is what I was looking for.
Thanks,
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net> wrote:
> On 14/07/2009, at 4:23 AM, Rick Ernst wrote:
>
> Either they don't exist, or my Google-fu is particularly bad this morning.
>>
>> I'm trying to get my toes wet with IPv6. I've established an internal
>> 6to4/4to6 tunnel. I'd also like to have a testbed for access to public v6
>> sites. I'm also trying to find some clue at my upstreams, but figured I'd
>> ask here as well. Are there any 4to6 gateway available? I have assigned
>> v6
>> space.
>>
>
>
> Because I'm pedantic, 6to4 and 6in4 are two different things. It sounds
> like you want 6in4.
> They use the same encapsulation, but 6to4 has specific magic in how the
> outer IPv4 destination is built, taken from the inner IPv6 destination
> address.
> 6over4 is different again.
>
> I think someone wrote a draft explaining this a while back.. not sure where
> or what it was called.
>
> --
> Nathan Ward
>
>
>
