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

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

On 11/1/2010 1:10 AM, Martin Millnert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, November 1, 2010 5:32 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>> 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
>
> A short answer is:
> "IPv4 VPN traffic inside IPv6" == IPv6 transport
> "IPv6 VPN traffic inside IPv4" == IPv6 payload
>
> Now re-read the announcement with this new information. :)
>
> It also aims to bring feature parity to OpenVPN between IPv4 and IPv6,
> which means in the case of IPv6 payload, that you can do
> Point-to-Multipoint interfaces where, just as in IPv4, the server handles
> a pool of links/addresses automagically. Kind-of neat, if you ask me.
>
> A tiny caveat is that the IPv6 payload code right now sits together with
> the IPv4 code somehow, so you must configure IPv4 addresses as well, to
> get IPv6 addresses working.
>
> But that's a later step, I guess.
>
> I recently configured a simple tunnel using information at
> http://www.greenie.net/ipv6/openvpn.html - which has a link to Ubuntu debs
> that worked fine to install to Debian Lenny and Debian Squeeze.
> tun-ipv6 didn't work on a Xen 2.6.18 domU of mine, so something newer than
> that is required I suppose, for Linux.
>
> Having tunneled but real IPv6 anywhere rather than not at all is important
> to me, so I'm grateful for these patches. :)
>
>

I am interested in seeing this in the dd-wrt codebase.  How soon until 
it is part of the regular openvpn distribution?

Ted