Hi,

You should be able to use FreeBSD + Kame (possibly FreeBSD 4.4 doesn't
even need the kame snap kits) to do a v4 in v6 tunnel using gif devices.

Kame also has the NAT-PT package, you could possibly translate packets
from v4 to v6 and back again, but I'm not sure how well it would
work!  Using a v4 in v6 tunnel would be the normal way to do this kind of
thing I think.. :-)  Tunnels *should* be able to handle multicast as well
- although I haven't tried this.

I don't think linux supports any of this (I may be wrong!) I know FreeBSD
does.

Have fun!

Mike

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Lukovszki, Csaba wrote:

> 
> I would like to use on my linux a some of bidirectional
> IPv6/IPv4 network address and protocol translator.
> Unfortunatelly, I did not find any implementation.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donald McLachlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 8:12 PM
> Subject: Re: IPv4-Ipv6 header translation
> 
> 
> >
> > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 21 13:46:42 2001
> > >
> > > Dear Colegeaus,
> > >
> > > In our laboratory we would like to investigate the situation where
> > > two Ipv4 computers are comunicating between only Ipv6 capable cloud.
> > >
> > > ------  ipv4 pkts  ------  ipv6 pkts  ------  ipv4 pkts ------
> > > |ipv4|-------------|ipv6|-------------|ipv6|------------|ipv4|
> > > ------             ------             ------            ------
> > >
> > > Do anybody knows what kind of translation do we have to use
> > > in IPv6 routers to make IPv4 computers to communicate.
> > >
> > > Best wishes,
> > > Csaba Lukovszki
> >
> > Do you really want header translation, or tunnelling of IPv4 through
> > IPv6?
> >
> > I've been looking at doing IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnelling.  While reading up
> > on this I saw that:
> >
> > - GRE (RFC-2784) could do this but does not handle MTU discovery so it
> >   looks like you'd have to do some careful MTU setting on the hosts on
> >   either side of the routers.  Also, the RFC [March 2000] says "IPv6 as
> >   delivery and/or payload protocol is not included in the currently
> >   deployed versions of GRE."
> >
> > - RFC-2473 seems more complete and should be able to do what you need.
> >   6Wind claims to have RFC-2473.
> >
> > - Cisco's tunnel command seems to allow 6-in-4 tunnels.  I don't know
> about
> >   4-in-6 tunnels, or what tunnelling mechanism (read RFC) they use.
> >
> > Don
> 
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