Inventors
Marc Blanchet, Florent Parent, Jean-Francois Boudreault
Publication date
2004/7/8
Patent office
US
Application number
10337428
Description
A tunnel setup protocol enables tunnel clients to set up IPv6-in-IPv4 networks to permit IPv6 nodes to communicate across the IPv4 network using IPv6 native packets, even if the IPv4 network contains a Network Address Translation function. The tunnel setup protocol uses a control channel to negotiate tunnel configuration parameters and exchange tunnel configuration data between a tunnel client and a tunnel broker server. The tunnel setup is automatic, and migration to IPv6 is ameliorated.
Total citations
Scholar articles
M Blanchet, F Parent, JF Boudreault - US Patent App. 10/337,428, 2004