RFC 7059: A Comparison of IPv6-over-IPv4 Tunnel Mechanisms

This document provides an overview of various ways to tunnel IPv6 packets over IPv4 networks. It covers mechanisms in current use, touches on several…

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Outgoing relationships (19 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
Informative reference — RFC 4862: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
Informative reference — RFC 1191: Path MTU discovery
Informative reference — RFC 5389: Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Informative reference — RFC 2663: IP Network Address Translator (NAT) Terminology and Considerations
Informative reference — RFC 3056: Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds
Informative reference — RFC 1981: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
Informative reference — RFC 4213: Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
Informative reference — RFC 4380: Teredo: Tunneling IPv6 over UDP through Network Address Translations (NATs)
Informative reference — RFC 6145: IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm
Informative reference — RFC 3489: STUN - Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Through Network Address Translators (NATs)
Informative reference — RFC 5214: Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP)
Informative reference — RFC 5969: IPv6 Rapid Deployment on IPv4 Infrastructures (6rd) -- Protocol Specification
Informative reference — RFC 6169: Security Concerns with IP Tunneling
Informative reference — RFC 2529: Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels
Informative reference — RFC 6832: Interworking between Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) and Non-LISP Sites
Informative reference — RFC 6343: Advisory Guidelines for 6to4 Deployment
Informative reference — RFC 6732: 6to4 Provider Managed Tunnels
Informative reference — RFC 6751: Native IPv6 behind IPv4-to-IPv4 NAT Customer Premises Equipment (6a44)

Incoming relationships (1 related RFC)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 9601: Propagating Explicit Congestion Notification across IP Tunnel Headers Separated by a Shim