Am Sonntag 30 August 2009 22:02:53 schrieb Juliusz Chroboczek: > > I have a question about Babels ability handling IPv4 and IPv6 traffic at > > the same time. > > > > What is the limit of this ? Do all nodes have to support IPv6 (so that > > IPv4 traffic can be routed as IPv6 "legacy" IPs) ? Or does it support > > networks where some nodes only handle IPv4, some handle both IPv4 and > > IPv6 and some only IPv6 ? > > Babel fully supports hybrid networks. The only limitation is that all > nodes need to have kernel support for IPv6 (but they don't need IPv6 > addresses). This limitation could in principle be lifted, but I don't > think it's worth it. > > Interestingly enough, in the current implementation, an IPv6-only node will > only forward IPv6, while an IPv4-only node will forward both IPv4 and IPv6 > (but will of course be unable to originate or receive IPv6 packets). How do IPv4 nodes forward IPv6 traffic ?
According to my knowledge you cannot insert a routing entry into linux with IPv6 as destination and IPv4 as gateway (next hop). Henning Rogge
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