How 6rd Works

[Fatou S Secka]

Can we do 6rd without dual stack?

[Uwimana Jean Lambert]

• The ISP assigns each customer an IPv6 address that is derived from their own public IPv4 address.

• The customer’s router encapsulates IPv6 packets inside IPv4 packets and sends them over the ISP’s IPv4 network.

• These packets are routed to a 6rd relay router at the ISP, which decapsulates them and forwards the native IPv6 traffic to the IPv6 internet.

[Eduardo Brito da Cunha]

Hello Fatou,

Yes, we can.

6rd is an IPv6-over-IPv4 tunneling mechanism, so it lets an ISP provide IPv6 even if the core network is still IPv4-only. Dual-stack isn’t required in the provider network—just on the tunnel endpoints.

• This reply was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by  Eduardo Brito da Cunha.

[Fatou S Secka]

Thank you.

[samson Mawisire]

yes we can through tunnelling