Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 06:55:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Lixia Zhang <lixia@CS.UCLA.EDU> To: Brian Zill <bzill@microsoft.com> Cc: "'f.johan.beisser'" <jan@caustic.org>, Brad Huntting <huntting@hunkular.glarp.com>, snap-users@kame.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ngtrans@sunroof.eng.sun.com, ipng@sunroof.eng.sun.com, yjin@CS.UCLA.EDU Subject: Re: 6over4 for KAME (FreeBSD) Message-ID: <200010281355.GAA20174@aurora.cs.ucla.edu> In-Reply-To: <CB7153628BD3724096258CBFD70AA891041DB8@red-msg-04.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> from Brian Zill at "Oct 27, 2000 02:40:23 pm"
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> 6to4 and 6over4, while having unfortunately similar names, are quite > different things. > > 6to4 is a form of automatic IPv6 tunneling over IPv4. The IPv4 address of > the "home" end of the tunnel is encoded into the IPv6 prefix. See > draft-ietf-ngtrans-6to4-07.txt. > > 6over4 is another IPv6 over "foo", where "foo" in this case is a > multicast-enabled IPv4 network, instead of say Ethernet or FDDI. See RFC > 2529. > > My recollection is that an implementation of 6over4 for some BSD flavor > exists, since I recall someone performing some interoperability testing > between our implementation and that implementation. UCLA sounds > familiar. yes we did an implementation a few years back, I also recall the interoperability test. Someone from 3com picked up our code? Yixin, can you recall more details? Lixia > Aren't two interoperating implementations a requirement for Proposed > Standard? (RFC 2529 is at PS) I'm not aware of any others offhand, but it > wouldn't surprise me if there were some. > > --Brian > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: f.johan.beisser [mailto:jan@caustic.org] > > Sent: Friday, 27 October, 2000 12:32 > > To: Brad Huntting > > Cc: snap-users@kame.net; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; > > ngtrans@sunroof.eng.sun.com; ipng@sunroof.eng.sun.com > > Subject: Re: 6over4 for KAME (FreeBSD) > > > > > > > > i'm not sure if this is what you mean, but: > > > > http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/6to4/ > > > > also, i think that it is documented on http://www.kame.net. > > > > of course, i oculd very well be talking out of my butt. > > > > -- jan > > > > > > > > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Brad Huntting wrote: > > > > > > > > Has anyone started writing a 6over4 (rfc2529) driver for KAME and/or > > > FreeBSD? > > > > > > I have a pointer to a UCLA project called "Virtual Ethernet" by > > > Quang Nguyen (no email address given), but it was written for the > > > Inria stack and FreeBSD2. If there's nothing else available, I > > > may use this as a guide. > > > > > > > > > -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ > > http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org > > "Never laugh at someone until you've walked a mile in their > > shoes. Then laugh. For you are a mile away, and > > you have their shoes." > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List > > IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng > > FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng > > Direct all administrative requests to majordomo@sunroof.eng.sun.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List > IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng > FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng > Direct all administrative requests to majordomo@sunroof.eng.sun.com > -------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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