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

On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 09:32:19PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Each of these groups has gotten themselves a tunneled router connection to
> the IPv6 backbone outside the University, and we can communicate using IPv6
> by going out to the backbone and back into the University via these two
> tunnels.
>
> But that seems overly cumbersome. It would be great if we could connect
> the two groups directly with an IPv6 on IPv4 tunnel that never leaves the
> University. If possible, I'd like to use two Debian machines to do this.
> Does anybody know how/if it can be done?
>
> Thanks!

have a look at 6to4 tunnel. if the two areas have ipv4 addresses that can talk to each other you can just use 6to4 tunnels
>
> Rick
>
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