can netgraph support IPv6 over IPv6

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Wed May 23 20:50:59 UTC 2007


Hideki Yamamoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question about netgraph.
> I succeeded in connecting two box by netgraph as follows:
> 
>   [ipv6 streaming server]==IPv6==[FBSD box]--IPv4--[FBSD box]==IPv6==[client]
> 
> The above client can receive ether frame from ipv6 streaming server.
> I used netgraph and FreeBSD 6.2 for this diagram.
> 
> As the IPv4 network between two FBSD box is not stable,
> I would like to change IPv4 backbone network into IPv6 backbone
> network.  This IPv6 backbone network uses different address space from
> IPv6 network connected with server and client.
> 
> My quetion is if netgraph support IPv6 over IPv6.
> Before testing, releted information is welcomed.

netgraph doesn't care..
it knows nothign about ipV4 or ipV6 
if you use the ng_ksocket type it MAY need expension to
bind to an ipv6 address..

> 
> Best regard,
> 
> Hideki Yamamoto
> 
> 
>  
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