[BBLISA] anybody doing IPv6 for real operations?/possible presentation topic

[Edward Ned Harvey]

> How can a router that doesn't know anything about IPv6 make a
> forwarding
> decision for ("route") packets (datagrams) using an addressing system
> it
> knows nothing about? 

If you are on a network which does not do IPv6, and you need (or want) to do
IPv6, you can get an address assigned to you from some provider and
encapsulate the IPv6 packets in IPv4.  Much like doing a VPN tunnel to
access your 10.x.x.x network at work from your 192.168.1.x network at home,
except that your IPv6 address is world routable.

But of course you'll get the most benefit and possibly measurably higher
performance if your ISP does IPv6 all the way to your endpoint.