[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to deal with IPV4/6 as a router

Jonathan Adams t12nslookup at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 08:28:07 UTC 2012


> On 06-06-12 21:29, Gary Gendel wrote:
>>
>> My ISP has turned on IPV6 and I can get as many addresses as I want.
>>  However, some of my devices aren't ipv6 capable so I have to deal with a
>> mix of ipv4 and ipv6 addresses until these are retired.
>> I turned on ipv6 on bge0 and have both an ipv4 and ipv6 address.  I also
>> can run the ipv6 test (test-ipv6.com) perfectly.
>>
>> The question is: How do I set up things so it works with my internal
>> devices?  It seems that All I want to do is to leave the ipv4 setup as I
>> have it now and pass all ipv6 packets (discovery, etc.) from bge0 to bge1
>> (and visa versa).  This way my ISP will provide ipv6 addresses to those
>> devices that ask for one.
>

We cheated ... we installed Proxies (delegate and squid) ... IPv6 on
the external IPv4 on the internal, everything else is "firewalled"
(because IPv4 cannot use IPv6 DNS) ...

Jon



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