NEC NWA-008869-001 manual IPv6/IPv4 Tunneling, IPv6 over IPv4

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CHAPTER 1 GENERAL INFORMATION

SYSTEM OUTLINE

IPv6/IPv4 Tunneling

Tunneling is the function that the information of a protocol is encapsulated into the packet of an another protocol and transferred. Tunneling makes it possible to transfer data between networks having different protocols. A maximum of eight tunnels are available, of which one is an automatic tunnel, and reserved. Many of the present networks are created with IPv4 and, therefore, IPv6 networks will be separated by IPv4 networks. If you want to shift to an IPv6 network in a stepwise manner, you can set a tunnel for the communication between hosts.

An In-Skin Router encapsulates an IPv6 packet into a IPv4 datagram to send the encapsulated packet over the IPv4 network. Upon receiving the encapsulated packet, another In-Skin Router extracts the IPv6 packet from the IPv4 packet and sends it to an IPv6 host.

By using an existing IPv4 network, you can shift smoothly to an IPv6 network.

IPv6 over IPv4

IPv6 network

2000 IPS

IPv4 network

2000 IPS

IPv6 network

 

 

In-Skin Router

 

In-Skin Router

 

 

 

IPv6 packet

 

IPv4 packet

 

 

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IPv6 Host

IPv6 Host

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Encapsulation

Tunneling

Packet extraction

 

 

 

 

 

 

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NEC NWA-008869-001 manual IPv6/IPv4 Tunneling, IPv6 over IPv4