RE: An alternative to 6to4 and teredo

[Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>]

-- samedi, janvier 18, 2003 00:34:07 +0200 Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
wrote/a écrit:
> [...]
>> I've partially developped an alternative to this scheme with some
>> big differences to what Freenet6 does with their TSP protocol.
>> Some other things are in line first though. But it will be a
>> system I want to have deployed at least before march for the
>> SixXS system which we fortunatly abstracted with an API so that
>> things like these can be implemented quite easily.
>> Small example is port 42006 on our noc.sixxs.net box which
>> basically replaces the website and can be easily accessed by
>> any program capable of sending data over a tcp/ip socket.
> 
> Above you show one of the main points here: there are dozens of
> tunnelbrokers, and each have their own interface (pretty much).  It's just
> too much work that way.
> 
> (btw, I think tunnel brokering would get off a bit if a client+server code
> using some agreed protocol 

TSP?

> would happen to be publicized under a liberal
> license like BSD.)

freenet6 code, which implements tsp, has a Mozilla license.

>  
>> As I also probably wrote before, people do also sign up for
>> things like MSN and hotmail etc, so an IPv6 tunnel via a
>> webinterface shouldn't be that hard either.
>> The only thing is making them think that having it is useful!
>> (Which is one part I have on the 'other things to do first' :)
> 
> Hotmail etc. have been around for ages.  Tunnel brokers come and go.  The 
> configuration may require some installation in your computer.  Sure, many 
> folks still do it, but there's a big difference.
> 
> But of course, some kind of "tunnel broker discovery" or catalogues could
> be coined up too...

we have a proposal on this already, that I can send if people are
interested in it.

> -- 
> Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
> Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
> Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
> 

Marc.