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]

Reply via email to