I would like to use on my linux a some of bidirectional IPv6/IPv4 network address and protocol translator. Unfortunatelly, I did not find any implementation.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Donald McLachlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 8:12 PM Subject: Re: IPv4-Ipv6 header translation > > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 21 13:46:42 2001 > > > > Dear Colegeaus, > > > > In our laboratory we would like to investigate the situation where > > two Ipv4 computers are comunicating between only Ipv6 capable cloud. > > > > ------ ipv4 pkts ------ ipv6 pkts ------ ipv4 pkts ------ > > |ipv4|-------------|ipv6|-------------|ipv6|------------|ipv4| > > ------ ------ ------ ------ > > > > Do anybody knows what kind of translation do we have to use > > in IPv6 routers to make IPv4 computers to communicate. > > > > Best wishes, > > Csaba Lukovszki > > Do you really want header translation, or tunnelling of IPv4 through > IPv6? > > I've been looking at doing IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnelling. While reading up > on this I saw that: > > - GRE (RFC-2784) could do this but does not handle MTU discovery so it > looks like you'd have to do some careful MTU setting on the hosts on > either side of the routers. Also, the RFC [March 2000] says "IPv6 as > delivery and/or payload protocol is not included in the currently > deployed versions of GRE." > > - RFC-2473 seems more complete and should be able to do what you need. > 6Wind claims to have RFC-2473. > > - Cisco's tunnel command seems to allow 6-in-4 tunnels. I don't know about > 4-in-6 tunnels, or what tunnelling mechanism (read RFC) they use. > > Don --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
