(usagi-users 01199) Re: IPv6 Private Network Setup

[vriztll at hotmail.com (vriz)]

If I configure a global address, it's still IPv6 and I couldn't access
the Internet (IPv4).
I've found another doc (written by you) which is the Linux IPv6 HowTo,
but I'm still reading it. It contains alot of information which I need.
Thanks.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Bieringer" <pb at bieringer.de>
To: <usagi-users at linux-ipv6.org>; "t - Singapore LUG"
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Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 3:15 PM
Subject: (usagi-users 01199) Re: IPv6 Private Network Setup


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> --On Wednesday, January 23, 2002 10:17:25 AM +0800 vt
> <vriztll at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I would like to setup a private IPv6 lan network. I understand that
> > I could do IPv6-in-IPv4 tunneling to access the IPv6-Internet.
> > However, is it possible to do IP Masq to masq an IPv6 packet in a
> > IPv4 packet to access external IPv4 sites? How do I setup the
> > router to do this? For the client, am I right to say that nothing
> > much is to be done except to get an IPv6 address from the DHCPv6 in
> > the router? Thanks.
>
> There is no NAT defined in IPv6 (afaik) and hopefully never came up...
> ...because this will break e.g. end-to-end security feature.
>
> In your case you have to configure global or site local addresses,
> depending on your needs to reach the outside native. If only using
> webbrowsing, you can setup an IPv6 enabled proxy and use site local
> internally.
>
>         Peter
>
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