On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 14:57 -0500, Michael Banta wrote: > I did not know that I could. I thought that since my ISP does not > provide native IPv6 services that I had to use a tunnel broker (ie > Huricane Electric). I would like not to have to use it if that is possible.
You should still check that your ISP provides a 6to4 router. Try pinging the 192.88.99.1 anycast address. > Thanks to all for your replies. > > BTW, do you know why I keep getting messages back from the > [email protected] list saying it no longer exists, yet you guys respond to > it. Weird. When I reply to you, I get a reply from AGFA saying your mail address doesn't exist. It's probably related to that. Fredrik Tolf > Thanks > Mike > > Bound, Jim wrote: > > >If you have a valid IPv6 prefix why use 6to4 addreses at all? Why not > >just deprecate 6to4 and move to IPv6 addresses directly? > > > >thanks > >/jim > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > >>Behalf Of Fredrik Tolf > >>Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 6:38 AM > >>To: Michael Banta > >>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > >>Subject: Re: 6to4 question > >> > >>On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 04:41 -0500, Michael Banta wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I am aware of a full ip address, just figured I would spare > >>> > >>> > >>you the full > >> > >> > >>>address since it is not pertenant to the question. > >>> > >>>I keep reading that with 6to4 addresses, they are supposed > >>> > >>> > >>to start with > >> > >> > >>>2002: prefixes so that autoconfiguration can take place > >>> > >>> > >>with the clients. > >> > >>6to4 address are something quite different from a block > >>provided through > >>a tunnel. a 2001 address is a "real" IPv6 address -- that is, > >>a part of > >>the IPv6 Internet with no IPv4 dependencies. > >> > >>6to4 addresses (i.e. those starting with 2002), on the other hand, are > >>part of the IPv4-to-IPv6 migration plan. If you have a globally > >>aggregatable IPv4 address (i.e. an IPv4 address that anyone > >>on the IPv4 > >>internet can send packets to, such as _not_ a part of the > >>192.168.0.0/24 > >>blocks), you are, with 6to4, automatically given a /48 IPv6 subnet. > >> > >>I know I haven't really explained this very well at this > >>point, so I'll > >>try with an example. I'm using 6to4. I have a static IPv4 address, > >>82.182.133.20. Written in hexadecimal, that is 52.b6.85.14. > >>Using that, > >>I can construct my automatic 6to4 subnet: > >>2002:52b6:8414::/48. I, too am > >>using a Linux router with radvd, and the computer I'm typing this from > >>has gotten the address2002:52b6:8514:200:20c:76ff:fe3b:a3f4. The nice > >>thing with this is that I need no tunnel provider. The bad > >>thing is, of > >>course, that it depends on IPv4. > >> > >>The way 6to4 works is that when my router detects an outgoing IPv6 > >>packet, it first checks the destination address. If it starts > >>with 2002, > >>it rolls the packet inside an IPv4 packet, checks bits 16 > >>through 48 in > >>the destination address, and put those in the IPv4 destination address > >>field. For example, when communicating with my friend, who also uses > >>6to4 and has the IPv4 address 213.132.111.101, I send a packet to her > >>IPv6 address, 2002:d584:6f65::1. My router extracts > >>d584:6f65, which is > >>213.132.111.101 in hexadecimal, and puts that in the IPv4 packet's > >>destination address field, puts the IPv6 packet as the IPv4 > >>payload, and > >>sends the packet. When her computer picks it up, it unwraps the IPv6 > >>packet and uses it. > >>When communicating with a non-6to4 address, my router sends it, again > >>wrapped in an IPv4 packet, to a IPv4-to-IPv6 router on the Internet. > >>Many ISPs support the anycast address 192.88.99.1, which always means > >>"the closest IPv4-to-IPv6 router". When a non-6to4 host wishes to send > >>v6 packets to me, it just sends them normally and the IPv6 Internet > >>backbone will route them to the closest IPv6-to-IPv4 router, > >>which will > >>wrap their package in an IPv4 packet, check the IPv6 > >>destination address > >>(2002:52b6:8514:X) and calculate the proper IPv4 destination > >>address (my > >>82.182.133.20 address) from that, and send it to me over > >>IPv4. My router > >>will then unwrap it when it gets it, and forward it over my internal > >>IPv6 network. > >> > >>So as you see, 6to4 addresses are something quite different from the > >>2001::/48 block that you got from your tunnel provider. > >> > >> > >> > >>>The /48 was given to me by the provider. I am aware of the > >>> > >>> > >>addresses > >> > >> > >>>construction, just can't figure out how to get the clients > >>> > >>> > >>to connect > >> > >> > >>>through the router. > >>> > >>> > >>I still don't really understand what your actual problem is, after all > >>this. > >> > >>Hope this helps. > >>Fredrik Tolf > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>The IPv6 Users Mailing List > >>Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The IPv6 Users Mailing List > Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
