(physical)6bone experience in WIDE/Japan
Steve Deering
deering@parc.xerox.com
Wed, 12 Jun 1996 06:37:15 PDT
> At 15:22 on Jun 9th, 1996, the first IPv6 packet traveled on the WIDE
> 6bone...
Congratulations!
> Every node is equipped with WIDE/Nara v6 kernel on BSD/OS 2.1 and has
> IPv4-compatible IPv6 address.
Why are you not using native IPv6 addresses from the address space
allocated for IPv6 testing, rather than IPv4-compatible IPv6 addresses?
As far as I understand, that only time you should need to use IPv4-compat.
addresses is for IPv6 hosts that do not have a neighboring IPv6 router.
Steve