Re: Help with 6to4 on a router
On 3/30/06, Marc Singer wrote:
> > I have 6to4 setup and working (I believe reliably) for some time now
> > on my router. Now I want my IPv4 (only capable of IPv4) machines
> > behind this router to be able to browse and use IPv6 hosts? Is this
> > possible? How? Thanks.
>
> That doesn't really make sense.
Tell that to Microsoft who doesn't offer an IPv6 solution for Win2k machines.
> If the ipv4 hosts have no ipv6 capabilities, how do you expect them to
> exchange packets with ipv6 hosts? They won't be able to do DNS
> look-ups returning ipv6 address.
Well.. The router in question currently masqs ips for these machine. I
thought maybe there would be an way to masq the IPv4 machines
favor/use the IPv6 address of some DNS request if it provides,
otherwise use IPv4... then use the IP from the router to acutally
contact the IPv6 when it's available.
> Generally, ipv4-only hosts can only talk to ipv4 hosts. You could do
> some gymnastics with proxying if you have specific sites you need to
> access. You're better off enabling ipv6 on these machines.
As I noted n the original post... I have no way of enabling IPv6 on
them (at least that I'm aware of). I don't know of any freely
available IPv6 implementation for Win2k SP4 machines.
--
George
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