> 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, 27 October, 2000 12:32
> > To: Brad Huntting
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 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 /--------------------------------------+
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> > "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."
> >
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