Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:18:02 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: "Questions @ FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IPv6 and IPv4 Message-ID: <20020917121802.GA29589@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <NGBBJAAOCMHHCAAOGNFMMEMGDKAA.xgautham@ti.com> References: <NGBBJAAOCMHHCAAOGNFMMEMGDKAA.xgautham@ti.com>
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:58:52PM +0530, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: > Hi > > Since it is possible to run IPv6 and IPv4 on the same network, and most > routers supposedly support IPv6, why is there a need to have the IPv6 > network seperate from the internet ? as long as the client and the > server are both IPv6 enabled (and the routers in b/w), shouldn't this > work properly? The key point here is that the backbone needs to support IPv6 for it to work. If your ISP's backbone doesn't know IPv6, then it won't get routed, even if the kit they use is capable of handling it. You can tunnel IPv6 between widely distributed sites using the gif(4) and faith(4) pseudo-interfaces. > > Gautham > -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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