Re: 6to4 security questions

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Tim Chown wrote:
> 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?

To me, it is clear that 6to4 is probably never the best solution except in
most SOHO/Home network solutions, or in testing (easy to get started, as 
there is no need to negotiate a tunnel).

But that is what it was designed for, I think.

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Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
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