[6bone] Re: about transition from ipv4 to ipv6

[Peter Bunclark]

I wonder why you want to do that?   If that is all,just
ifconfig | sed 's/sit/othername//g'

Pete.

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, [iso-8859-1] Mamatha Balachandra wrote:

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> Dear Sir
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>                  I am M.tech  (Computer Science)  student. I am doing my project as "performance measure in various transition mechanisms from ipv4 to ipv6". I am using Red Hat Linux 8.0.
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> I am using 2 methods: Dual stack and Tunneling.
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> In Dual stack I implemented  Client-Server communication. And I used ping and ping6 to check the performance such as rtt,throughput,packet loss.
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> In tunneling I used sit interface and I am communicating 2 mechines (IPV6) and transmitting the packets  between them to test the performance such as packet loss,throughput,rtt.
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> Now my doubt is : how to change the name of sit interface in the output of ifconfig command? And even whatever I change in /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/net/ipv6/sit.c it wont be affected in the output of ifconfig. Also it won't ping www.6bone.net using sit interface.
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> Please give me suggesions regarding this.
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> Thanking You
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> Mamtha
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