Am Monday 06 June 2011 schrieb mir Jeroen Massar:
> On 2011-Jun-06 15:55, Oliver Schad wrote:
> > Am Monday 06 June 2011 schrieb mir Jeroen Massar:
> >> The only thing where it might not be compatible is the user
> >> interface for making it easy to configure them.
> > 
> > While I agree to your point of view that 6rd and 6to4 are very close
> > to each other and it shoudln't take much time to implement all
> > necessary changes in user land and kernel it is still not compatible
> > because you have to set the prefix.
> > 
> > So if you look for a CPE or whatever which supports 6to4 you can't
> > conclude that it supports 6rd. That is what I mean. Remember, the OP
> > was looking for boxes which supports 6rd and in this context he
> > asked for 6to4.
> > 
> > And the answer is no, it isn't true, that support for 6to4 means
> > support for 6rd.
> 
> I did not state that, I did state that if you can configure a static
> protocol-41 tunnel, you can also configure a 6to4 and a 6rd one, just
> that you will have to do the prefix calculation yourself and not the
> easy way in the UI.

Yes that's true. 

But you can implement 6to4 without the possibility to support 6rd. The 
implementation can be compatible but it's not a must.

So maybe we have to different point of views what the term compatible 
means.

Regards
Oli

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