IPv6 6to4 Tunnels

Today I configured another type of IPv6 tunnels used to alleviate the headaches of switching to an entirely different IP format in a network! It's called a 6to4 tunnel and it does exactly what the name says. It encapsulates a Ipv6 address within a IPv4 packet so that it can use the IPv6 address locally and still travel across a IPv4 network. Do to the nature of this type of tunnel, it doesn't need to be configured on both ends of the tunnel since it's not considered a point-to-point link. To configure a 6to4 tunnel I used this simple command:

First I configured the logical tunnel:

R1 (config)# interface tunnel 0
R1 (config-if)# tunnel mode ipv6ip 6to4
R1 (config-if)# ipv6 address ipv6 address
R1 (config-if)# tunnel source interface
R1 (config-if)# exit

Second I configured a static route to point towards my tunnel:

R1 (config)# ipv6 route ipv6 address tunnel 0

This tells the router to send this particular IPv6 address out tunnel 0 and tunnel 0 routes this interface out of the source interface.