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RE: 6to4 usage scenarios
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Bound, Jim wrote:
> It should be used as Brian stated and with the intention brian stated.
> This is a gigantic rathole with no need to be here.
Do you have an idea what to use instead of 6to4 for smaller deployments?
Tunnel brokers are a possibility, about the only one I think. But those
require more configuration and aren't really that commonplace today
either.
> > -----Original Message----- From: Pekka Savola
> > [mailto:pekkas@netcore.fi] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:14 PM
> > To: v6ops@ops.ietf.org Subject: 6to4 usage scenarios
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > It seems like the 6to4 security discussion degenerated into
> > argument on
> > how it was meant to be used.
> >
> > There are two basic models of connecting 6to4 routers to relays:
> >
> > 1) simple static route to your relay
> > 2) BGP sessions to your relay and all the other relays where
> > you want to
> > receive native IPv6 packets from
> >
> > I know of _no_ deployments of 2) even though Brian insists on
> > that being the only "real" 6to4 usage scenario. Does anyone
> > know this being used?
> >
> > If not, I think we must acknowledge that 2) is not really
> > right-tool-for-the-job (think of 6over4 **), and that 1) is
> > the primary
> > (only?) applicability target of 6to4.
> >
> > The alternative is that we have gaping holes in Home/SOHO and
> > partially
> > maybe enterprise transition scenarios, and nothing to fill
> > them at the
> > moment.
> >
> > **) 6over4 is a nice technique, and we could even use it --
> > but we don't
> > want stuff like that. The same IMO applies to 6to4+BGP.
> > There is no use
> > specifying mechanisms for the audience who does not want them.
> >
> > P.S. I only came to the wg after 6to4 had just gone RFC, this
> > internal bickering really took me off surprise and made me
> > both frustrated and angry about refusing to accept the reality.
> >
> > --
> > Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
> > Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall"
> > Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords
> >
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--
Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords