FYI: [Openvpn-users] [Openvpn-devel] [ANNOUNCE] IPv6 payload patch

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

On 10/31/2010 2:11 PM, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 06:59:43PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>> ----- Forwarded message from Bernhard Schmidt<berni at birkenwald.de>  -----
>>
>> From: Bernhard Schmidt<berni at birkenwald.de>
>> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:09:52 +0100
>
> ... as this mail is a *bit* old (someone messed up their fetchmail
> config today and re-cycled half a year's worth of mailing list
> articles...), some information is no longer correct:
>
>> The patch (on stock upstream OpenVPN) and some rough documentation can
>> be found at http://www.greenie.net/ipv6/openvpn.html .
>
> This is still correct.
>
>> We are also
>> maintaining the code in git to ease development. There are a public
>> git-repository on my personal git server
>>
>> git://git.birkenwald.de/openvpn.git with the following branches:
>> * upstream (fetched from http://github.com/jjo/openvpn-ipv6/ stock
>>    branch, which again comes from git-svn from the OpenVPN repository)
>> * jjo-ipv6 (fetched again from jjo master branch, which is upstream
>>    with the additional patches for IPv6 _transport_ (not related to this
>>    project)
>> * gert-ipv6 (upstream + gert's patches for IPv6 payload)
>
> ... but this is no longer actively maintained, as the ipv6 payload branch
> is now in the main OpenVPN "testing" git (on sourceforge).
>

OK this is going to sound like a basic question, but what exactly
does this do?  Does it encapsulate IPv4 VPN traffic inside of IPv6
packets?  Or does it encapsulate IPv6 VPN traffic inside of IPv4?

Ted

> [..]
>> So what's left to do? Windows support for IPv6 is completely
>> unimplemented at the moment, that part of the code would love to see
>> someone familiar with the platform.
>
> Done by now :-)
>
> Gert Doering
>          -- NetMaster