Re: Improvement suggestion for 6in4 docs.

[Pim van Pelt <pim@bit.nl>]

Hi,

| A dumb question, is 6in4 different to 6to4?
Not a dumb question.

6in4 is the method of encapsulating IPv6 packets as payload in ordinary
IPv4 packets. 6to4 is a specific method of calculating the IPv6 address
using the IPv4 address.

Take IPv4 number 192.2.0.1, write it in hex: "c002:0001" and prepend
2002: to that, forming a unique IPv6 prefix 2002:c002:0001::/48 which
"belongs" to the mentioned IPv4 address. Everybody who wishes to send
IPv6 traffic to this box can encapsulate the IPv6 packet into an IPv4
packet destined to c002:0001 aka 192.2.0.1, which makes the
encapsulation transparant and non-configurable for endusers.

Not everybody agrees on weather we should actually use it though :)
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