IPv6 ISATAP Tunnels

From: Curt Girardin (curt.girardin@chicos.com)
Date: Mon Sep 12 2005 - 22:32:40 GMT-3


Hi,

I'm having a really difficult time understanding ipv6 ISATAP tunnels;
although I understand IPv6 manual tunnels, IPv6 GRE tunnels, and Ipv6
6-to-4 auto tunnels.

I've read and re-read the cisco documentation and it seems very
high-level:

Few details on who is supposed to do encapsulation/decapsulation at each
end.
No details on how that embedded IPv4 address is used. Is this the next
hop? A tunnel endpoint? Do all routers in-between also need to be
configured for ISATAP?
If the embedded IPv4 address is a tunnel endpoint, then how do you
handle multiple hosts at each site?
Is this really designed for dual-stack end-hosts?

Am I making this more complicated than it needs to be? I've also read
the IETF draft, and that's not much help either.

If anyone has a better explanation of this type of tunnel (along with
ipv4-compatable), I would very much appreciate it.

Here is the documentation I've read thus far:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios123/123cgcr/
ipv6_c/sa_tunv6.htm

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ngtrans-isatap-24.txt

Thank you,

Curt



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