Thank you all Two questions: If I get the HE as upstream to advertsie our ipv6,
1/ Do we still have www.tunnelbroker.net as tunneling connection? 2/ All the internet users can access our ipv6 website? Thank you On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Kenny Sallee <kenny.sal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > > >> > I did this by creating a 6to4 tunnel to a relay provided by >> >> 6in4, not 6to4. While HE do operate 6to4 relays, the brokered tunnel >> service is 6in4. >> > > A very important distinction I didn't have clear in my head. To regurgitate > some reading I just completed: both methods use v6 in v4 tunneling using ip > proto 41 in the IPv4 protocol field. However, 6to4 derives the IPv4 tunnel > destination of an IPv6 packet based on bits 17-48 of the IPv6 packet - which > when converted, equals the 32 bit IPv4 destination. While 6in4 is > statically configured IPv4 source and destination IP addresses on the Tunnel > (gre) interface. In Cisco world the config comes down to 'tunnel mode > ipv6ip' vs 'tunnel mode ipv6ip 6to4' and a few other lines of config. > Of course there are a lot more details then that searchable via google. > Thanks for pointing out my mistake - it helped me learn some more! Later, > Kenny
