[6bone] tunnel to 6bone?

[Ravi Samprathi]

Thanks.
I will look into this.
Best rgds.
Ravi

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Ken Pohniman wrote:

> To provide ipv6 connectivity to 6bone, you can use the following
> methods:
>
> Method1:
> Ipv6hosts---6to4router---(internet)---6to4relay---(6bone)
> The router will be configured with 6to4, and advertise the 6to4 prefix
> (depending on the router's public v4 address), to the v6 hosts. For the
> hosts to connect to a 6to4 address (eg. 2002:...) in 6bone, the router
> will perform 6to4 tunneling to the destination. However, to access a
> global ipv6 address (eg. 2001:...), you'll also need to add a default v6
> route on the router, pointing to the 6to4relay router (eg.
> ::/192.88.99.1).
>
> Method2:
> Ipv6hosts---(internet)---6to4relay---(6bone)
> You can treat the MS XP host like a router, and configure 6to4 and the
> necessary routing similar to method 1. Seems that with XP service pack
> 1, XP will automatically configure itself whenever it gets a public ipv4
> address. When you do a ping6 (eg. Ping6 www.kame.net), you should be
> able to get an ipv6 reply.
>
> Regards,
> Ken
>
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 6bone-admin@mailman.isi.edu [mailto:6bone-admin@mailman.isi.edu]
> On Behalf Of Ravikanth Samprathi
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 2:24 AM
> To: 6bone@mailman.isi.edu
> Subject: [6bone] tunnel to 6bone?
>
> Hi
> I have a topology with a set of ipv6-only-hosts
> and a set of ipv4-only-hosts as follows:
>
> IPv6 Hosts         IPv4 Hosts
>   |                       |
>   |                       |
>   |                       |
>   +--------+-----------+
>            |
>            |
>   IPv4/IPv6 Dual Stack Gateway
>            ||
>            ||
>            ||
>            ||
>            ||
>   IPv4/IPv6 Dual Stack Relay Router
>            |
>            |
>            |
>       6Bone ISP
>
> My goal is to provide global-ipv6-connectivity to the IPv6-hosts.
>
> Approach:
> ----------------
> To accomplish this goal, I have configured a dual-stack-relay-router.
> From each of the dual-stack-gateways, i have configured 6to4
> tunnels to the dual-stack-relay-router.  From the dual-stack-relay-
> router, i intend to connect to 6Bone.
> If the IPv4 address of dual-stack-gateway is 1.2.3.4, the IPv6
> address of the gateway is 2002:0102:0304::1/64, and the prefix delegated
> to the IPv6-hosts within that home would be 2002:0102:0304:0001 (64
> bits).
> If the IPv4 address of dual-stack-relay-router is 5.6.7.8, the IPv6
> address of the relay-router is 2002:0506:0708::1/64.
>
> My questions to you:
> -------------------------------
> On this front, can you please let me know if my approach is right?
> With this kind of configuration to the IPv6 hosts, will I
> be able to provide global connectivity to the ipv6-hosts?
>
> Is 6to4 tunnels the right approach to use to connect the gateways to
> relay-router?  And if so, how should i configure the ipv6-routing-
> tables in the gateways to forward all the ipv6 traffic to the
> relay-router?
>
> How should i configure the relay-router to connect to 6bone?  Do we
> use native-ipv6 or 6to4-tunnel?
>
> Is there a better approach to solve this problem?
>
> Since i am new to 6bone, i would greatly appreciate any help or
> pointers.
> With best rgds.
> Ravi
>
>
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