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Re: Comcast's 6to4 Relays


From: Fred Baker <fred () cisco com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:57:37 -0700


On Apr 19, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Butch Evans wrote:

+1. 6to4 is very bad and should be off my default, but unfortunately many
end users unwittingly have it on and this may provide them some relief.

So am I to understand that services like Toredo client (which is what I
PRESUME is being discussed) is on automatically in some Windows desktop
systems? 

No. 6to4 is RFC 3056/3068, and Teredo is a proprietary Microsoft technology documented in RFC 4380 with its updates. 
John and Cameron are talking about 6to4.

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