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Date:      Tue, 08 Dec 1998 07:24:29 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@iijlab.net>
Subject:   Re: Can we just come to a decision on IPv6 and IPSec?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.981208072429.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <19981207193525.A18185@gvr.org>

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On 07-Dec-98 Guido van Rooij wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 11:10:51AM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh wrote:
>> 
>>      One thing we don't implement intentionally is automatic tunnelling
>>      (packets to ::10.1.1.1 automatically tunnelled over IPv6-over-IPv4
>>      tunnel to 10.1.1.1).
> 
> Hmm..what does happen when I have a IPV6/V4 host that has an IPV6
> native address (so no V4 compatible address) that wants to communicate
> to an IPv4 host? Do I need to set up IPV4 specific routes to
> a dual stack machine that does the tunneling for me?

If I remember correctly, at the moment we are all tunneling over IPv4 to 6-Bone
using the IPv4 addresses which get stripped as soon as the packets reach their
tunnel gateway. So in general you only provide the default route for IPv6 to
the tunnel gateway using the -tunnel option in route (at least that's how I did
it using BSDi).

It's an obvious choice to make the default gateway from yer internal LAN to the
Internet the dual stack machine/tunneling gateway.

The rest of the hosts simply use the tunneling gateway by it's native IPv4
address. 

Note that when approximately 50% uses IPv6 encapsulation in IPv4 packets we are
going to switch it all around ;)

Unfortunately, man ifconfig route | grep tunnel yields nothing, we do have a
tunnel option somewhere right? 

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven                  Pax vobiscum...
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