shorewall_code/Shorewall-docs/6to4.xml

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    <title>6to4 Tunnels</title>

    <authorgroup>
      <author>
        <firstname>Eric</firstname>

        <surname>de Thouars</surname>
      </author>

      <author>
        <firstname>Tom</firstname>

        <surname>Eastep</surname>
      </author>
    </authorgroup>

    <pubdate>2004-01-05</pubdate>

    <copyright>
      <year>2003-2004</year>

      <holder>Eric de Thoars and Tom Eastep</holder>
    </copyright>

    <legalnotice>
      <para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
      document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
      1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
      no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
      Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
      <quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation License</ulink></quote>.</para>
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  <warning>
    <para>The 6to4 tunnel feature of Shorewall only facilitates IPv6 over IPv4
    tunneling. It does not provide any IPv6 security measures.</para>
  </warning>

  <para>6to4 tunneling with Shorewall can be used to connect your IPv6 network
  to another IPv6 network over an IPv4 infrastructure.</para>

  <para>More information on Linux and IPv6 can be found in the <ulink
  url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO">Linux IPv6 HOWTO</ulink>.
  Details on how to setup a 6to4 tunnels are described in the section <ulink
  url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/configuring-ipv6to4-tunnels.html">Setup
  of 6to4 tunnels</ulink>.</para>

  <section>
    <title>Connecting two IPv6 Networks</title>

    <para>Suppose that we have the following situation:</para>

    <graphic fileref="images/TwoIPv6Nets1.png" />

    <para>We want systems in the 2002:100:333::/64 subnetwork to be able to
    communicate with the systems in the 2002:488:999::/64 network. This is
    accomplished through use of the <filename><filename>/etc/shorewall/tunnels</filename></filename>
    file and the <quote>ip</quote> utility for network interface and routing
    configuration.</para>

    <para>Unlike GRE and IPIP tunneling, the <filename>/etc/shorewall/policy</filename>,
    <filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename> and <filename>/etc/shorewall/zones</filename>
    files are not used. There is no need to declare a zone to represent the
    remote IPv6 network. This remote network is not visible on IPv4 interfaces
    and to iptables. All that is visible on the IPv4 level is an IPv4 stream
    which contains IPv6 traffic. Separate IPv6 interfaces and ip6tables rules
    need to be defined to handle this traffic.</para>

    <para>In <filename>/etc/shorewall/tunnels </filename>on system A, we need
    the following:</para>

    <programlisting>#TYPE     ZONE     GATEWAY        GATEWAY ZONE
6to4      net      134.28.54.2</programlisting>

    <para>This entry in <filename>/etc/shorewall/tunnels</filename>, opens the
    firewall so that the IPv6 encapsulation protocol (41) will be accepted
    to/from the remote gateway.</para>

    <para>Use the following commands to setup system A:</para>

    <programlisting>&#62;<command>ip tunnel add tun6to4 mode sit ttl 254 remote 134.28.54.2</command>
&#62;<command>ip link set dev tun6to4 up</command>
&#62;<command>ip addr add 3ffe:8280:0:2001::1/64 dev tun6to4</command>
&#62;<command>ip route add 2002:488:999::/64 via 3ffe:8280:0:2001::2</command></programlisting>

    <para>Similarly, in <filename>/etc/shorewall/tunnels</filename> on system
    B we have:</para>

    <programlisting>#TYPE     ZONE     GATEWAY        GATEWAY ZONE
6to4      net      206.191.148.9</programlisting>

    <para>And use the following commands to setup system B:</para>

    <programlisting>&#62;<command>ip tunnel add tun6to4 mode sit ttl 254 remote 206.191.148.9</command>
&#62;<command>ip link set dev tun6to4 up</command>
&#62;<command>ip addr add 3ffe:8280:0:2001::2/64 dev tun6to4</command>
&#62;<command>ip route add 2002:100:333::/64 via 3ffe:8280:0:2001::1</command></programlisting>

    <para>On both systems, restart Shorewall and issue the configuration
    commands as listed above. The systems in both IPv6 subnetworks can now
    talk to each other using IPv6.</para>
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