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* IPv6 Tunneling (reverse tunnel need)
@ 2005-05-20 11:19 Felix Fischer
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From: Felix Fischer @ 2005-05-20 11:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I'm currently working on a research project and ran into a 
question regarding tunneling/decapsulation in IPv6.

<------> [ A ] ===== tunnel from A to B =====> [ B ] <------->  

Packets tunneled from A to B are only decapsulated at node B if
B has setup a tunnel-device in direction from B to A (reverse tunnel).

Is the need for the tunnel-device on node B an implementation
issue to handle tunneling, or does it come from something 
else (i.e. standard requirement) ?

Further, I am wondering why the possibility to use the ANY_ADDRESS
as tunnel-end-point isn't present in IPv6 ?
The IPv4 implementation allows the usage of "0.0.0.0" as remote_address for
tunnel-end-points.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Felix Fischer
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