RFC 4891:Using IPsec to Secure IPv6-in-IPv4 Tunnel...
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... tunnel spans one segment of the end-to-end path that the IPv6 packet takes. ...
... tunnel spans the first segment of the packet's end-to-end path. The hosts ...
... IPv6 packets between themselves. In this case, the tunnel spans the entire end-to-end path. In this case, the source and the destination IPv6 ...


... tunnel traffic that spans only a part of an end-to-end path. IPv6 ...


... Please note that using IPsec for the scenarios described in Figures 1, 2, and 3 does not aim to protect the end-to-end communication. It protects just the tunnel part. It is still possible for an IPv6 ...



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