Hi Kilian, I'm aware of IPv6 in IPv6 tunneling, but I really did want GRE tunneling over IPv6 to reduce variability between IPv4 and IPv6 environments for a specific application.
I'm sort of puzzled why GRE isn't implement with "ip" in IPv6. Thanks, Bill On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:27 +0100, "Kilian Krause" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > > On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 15:48 -0500, Bill Cerveny wrote: > > I would like to encapsulate IPv6 packets within an IPv6 GRE tunnel (ie > > on IPv6 transport). I can do this with a Cisco router, but the "ip" > > command does not support GRE with IPv6. Is the capability to create an > > IPv6 GRE planned feature of the "ip" command? If not, is there anything > > else with Linux that supports creation of GRE tunnels on IPv6 transport? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Bill Cerveny > > > > /sbin/ip -6 tunnel help > > Usage: ip -f inet6 tunnel { add | change | del | show } [ NAME ] > > [ mode { ip6ip6 | ipip6 | any } ] > > > I guess what you're searching for is the "ip6ip6" tunnel. GRE is IPv4 > only, but IPIP tunneling should work just fine with ipv6. > > -- > Best regards, > Kilian > > Email had 1 attachment: > + signature.asc > 1k (application/pgp-signature) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
