Re: IPv6 bridging

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Thu Dec 02 2004 - 19:48:12 EST


On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:58:47 +0100
Zoltan NAGY <nagyz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Is it possible to bridge ip tunnels (IPv6 in IPv4)? brctl gives me an
> error "Invalid argument",
> and from strace it seems it misses some ioctls from kernel...

That is because the bridge code works at the Ethernet level.
It is an 802 Ethernet bridge, not an IP tunnel.


> any ideas?
>
> I need it to be able to give my UMLs a public ipv6 address.
>
> Regrads,
>
> Zoltan NAGY,
> Software Engineer
>
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