Configure 6To4 Automatic Tunneling - NETGEAR ProSafe FVS318N Reference Manual

ProSafe Wireless-N 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall FVS318N
6. To verify the connection, click the Status option arrow in the upper right of the screen to
display the Connection Status pop-up screen. (The following figure shows a static IP
address configuration; the IP addresses are not related to any other examples in this
manual.)
Figure 20.
The Connection Status screen should show a valid IP address and gateway, and you are
connected to the Internet. If the configuration was not successful, see
ISP Connection on page 370.
Note: For more information about the Connection Status screen, see
the WAN Port Status
Note: If your ISP requires MAC authentication and another MAC address
has been previously registered with your ISP, then you need to enter
that address on the Broadband Advanced Options screen for the
corresponding WAN interface (see
Options and Other Tasks

Configure 6to4 Automatic Tunneling

If your network is an isolated IPv6 network that is not connected to an IPv6 ISP, you need to
make sure that the IPv6 packets can travel over the IPv4 Internet backbone by enabling
automatic 6to4 tunneling.
6to4 is a WAN tunnel mechanism for automatic tunneling of IPv6 traffic between a device
with an IPv6 address and a device with an IPv4 address, or the other way around. 6to4
tunneling is used to transfer IPv6 traffic between LAN IPv6 hosts and WAN IPv6 networks
over the IPv4 network.
on page 356.
Configure Advanced WAN
on page 47).
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