On 21/2/07 3:37 PM, "Joe Abley"
On 20-Feb-2007, at 17:16, Martin Kealey wrote:
Question: are there any (DSL?) CPE units for sale or in development that will do v6 to v4 translation, plus v6 pass-thru?
In practical terms (and I'm being only slightly pedantic) there *is* no v6 to v4 translation. There are tunnels, and there is native IPv6.
Macs have been able to turn on 6to4 (which is a automatic tunnelling mechanism, and not any kind of v6/v4 translation scheme) with a relatively minor amount of clicking for a few years now, with no additional software to install. It's not on by default, and it's sufficiently well-hidden that no normal Mac user is likely to configure it by accident, but it's there.
And of course, normal IPv6 is enabled by default, at least since 10.3, so every interface has a link-local at least, and will acquire a global IPv6 address if available. Furthermore, most(?)/some applications use IPv6 preferentially, such as Safari and Terminal.
Similarly, *BSD has had 6to4 shipping in the default install for a long time (man stf).
I don't know about Linux, but people keep telling me how great and wonderful it is, so surely they must have had 6to4 built-in for MUCH LONGER THAN FREEBSD LOLZzz!1!1!! etc.
:) http://people.debian.org/~csmall/ipv6/setup624.html -- Michael Newbery IP Architect TelstraClear Limited