On 3-Oct-2007, at 1143, Elmar K. Bins wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Abley) wrote:
6to4 (for content- or access-focussed networks) is surely a solution
to the problem of "I have no good way to acquire IPv6 transit";
It solves another problem as well, like "I cannot go v6 to
my servers because my load balancing and packet filtering
black boxes don't do it yet".
I'm not sure how it solves that problem. 6to4 is not a translation
mechanism -- it's a tunnelling mechanism. 6to4 does not provide any
way for an IPv4-only host to talk to an IPv6-only host.
In order to make use of 6to4, surely servers and load balancers still
need to support IPv6 -- they just get loaded with addresses covered
by a 6to4 prefix rather than a prefix assigned by an RIR or an IPv6
transit provider.
Joe
