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Re: Tunnel between two IPv6 islands in an IPv4 ocean?



Thanks, Michael... And "Thanks!" very much for all the good answers I've gotten so far on this list.

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On Dec 27, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:

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"Martin" == Martin List-Petersen <martin@list-petersen.dk> writes:
What would be the "Debian way" to set up a tunnel between two
routers running Debian to connect two IPv6 islands in an
otherwise IPv4 ocean?

To be a bit more specific:

There are two groups of us in my University who are experimenting
with IPv6.  The rest of the University is entirely IPv4.

    Martin> Here an example /etc/network/interfaces extract:

    Martin> auto ipv6tun iface ipv6tun inet6 v4tunnel address

  What is described will work, and will work well.
There is another way to do this, if you are planning to have more than
two end-points, is you set up the 6to4 addresses on the routers, and
then just add routes to each other. (It just scales better, but if you
have only two sites, Martin's suggestion is as good or better)
  This has the advantage that it also gives you connectivity to the
2002: addresses directly, which are somewhat popular among IPv4-only
home users.


Can you be a bit more specific? I'm kinda new at this, and there are a number of things that I imagine might be what you're referring to as "the 6to4 addresses on the routers".

In particular, Martin gave a very detailed example of what to put in / etc/network/interfaces. I'm still working on understanding the details of how that works (Any pointers to good documentation on /etc/ network/interfaces and the programs that use it would be greatly appreciated!) If you could give a similar example for three (or more) islands/tunnel-endpoints, it might make things a bit clearer to me.

Thanks very much for all the good answers I've gotten so far!

Rick


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