Re: 6to4 security questions

[Laurent Dumont <laurent@apple.com>]

We're planning to offer 6to4 as an auto configured fallback for getting home
Mac users on IPv6. This of course if we don't get a RA and only in the case
we're the Mac is not behind a NAT... But that's another issue.

Laurent

on 11/20/02 13:08, Tim Chown at tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:48:45PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>> 
>> Currently in europe, at least, there are only a few 6to4 relays:
>>  - Switch
>>  - Cybernet
>>  - Funet
> 
> There are others (e.g. three I know of in the UK).  How public they are
> is another issue.
> 
> Just to put 6to4 in perspective for its current deployment, I am not aware
> of any European NRENs that are using 6to4 to connect sites to their national
> IPv6 deployments.  Everything is done by manually configured tunnels.
> 
> That's not to say 6to4 doesn't have a place (our students use it for access
> from their home networks, and it will work behind a NAT with tunnel
> forwarding)
> but it is perhaps more likely to be in large customer networks?
> 
> To play devil's advocate, who is using 6to4 in a notable deployment?
> 
> Tim
> 
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