IPv4 to IPv6...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 10:29:18AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> That's what I thought, but it's still tunnelling IPv6 > PPP > ethernet  
> vs IPv6 > ethernet.  Of course IPv4 does the same, IPv4 > PPP >  
> ethernet.  From a functional view, there's no difference between  
> encapsulating IPv6 in PPPoE vs IPv6 in IP protocol 41.  However, since  
> they're modifying a router, which adds an additional step, they now have  
> IPv6 > PPP, which is then carried by IPv4 PPPoE to Teksavyy.  This is  
> necessary because they are not modifying the ADSL modem.  There is a  
> similar router mod for the tunnel broker I use.

PPPoE does NOT run on IPv4.  It runs on raw ethernet.  The ADSL modem
knows nothing about IP.  It doesn't care.  It just moves ethernet frames.

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Len Sorensen
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