Can dynamic ipv4 addresses be used to tunnel the ipv6 traffic ?
Jørgen Hovland
jorgen@hovland.cx
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 01:31:49 +0200
I think if your router can redirect encapsulated data, ipv6 tunnel will work
through NAT.
You would have to set this static, or sourceroute it...
Protocol 98 ?
-j
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From: "Michael Kjorling" <michael@kjorling.com>
To: "Fabian Svara" <svara@gmx.net>
Cc: "6bone" <6bone@ISI.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: Can dynamic ipv4 addresses be used to tunnel the ipv6 traffic ?
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> On Apr 15 2002 01:11 +0200, Fabian Svara wrote:
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> > > Just remember that you cannot do IPv4 NAT in front of the IPv6-in-v4
> > > gateway.
> >
> > So that's why I could never manage to get freenet6 to work! I asked
> > quite some people on #ipv6 on OPN though, and they all told me it
> > was possible. Strange...
> >
> > -Fabian Svara
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> Well, I believe that I read that it works if it is nothing but address
> translation (one public address is changed into one private), but that
> is not what I have seen the term NAT being used about. (The way most
> people seem to use the term 'NAT' is in the meaning of what in the
> Linux world is called 'ip masquerading' - one public IP address in
> front of more than one private ones.)
>
> Maybe that is why.
>
>
> Michael Kjörling
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