diff --git a/content/u/blog/managing-ipv4-islands-with-jool-and-openwrt/contents.lr b/content/u/blog/managing-ipv4-islands-with-jool-and-openwrt/contents.lr index 28208a7..2aa51ee 100644 --- a/content/u/blog/managing-ipv4-islands-with-jool-and-openwrt/contents.lr +++ b/content/u/blog/managing-ipv4-islands-with-jool-and-openwrt/contents.lr @@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ body: ## Introduction -At ungleich we are using [Jool](https://www.jool.mx/) in a -variety of scenarios with NAT64 or SIIT. The main use of jool -in our infrastructure is to enable IPv6 only -hosts to communicate with the IPv4 Internet. +At ungleich we are using [Jool](https://www.jool.mx/) in a variety of +scenarios with NAT64 or SIIT. The main use of jool in our +infrastructure is to enable IPv6 only hosts to communicate with the +IPv4 Internet. However today we want to show you a different use case of jool: Enabling IPv4 islands to communicate with the IPv6 Internet. @@ -33,6 +33,16 @@ world, but we can do a 1:1 mapping from the IPv6 world: ![](/u/image/ipv4-ipv6-nat-asymmetric.png) +## Installing jool + +Installing jool on OpenWrt is very easy, it is just a matter of +installing the kernel module and the tools for managing jool: + +``` +opkg update +opkg install kmod-jool jool-tools +``` + ## Making IPv4 islands reachable Assume that you are mostly running IPv6 only networks. And you happen @@ -91,3 +101,8 @@ segment is now reachable. If you want to reach the IP address a matter of fact, while writing this article, the sample network is up and running and you should be able to **ping 2a0a:e5c1:18f:b00::192.168.1.1** from the IPv6 Internet. + +## More of this? + +If you are interested in IPv6 or network, feel free to join us on the +[IPv6.chat](https://IPv6.chat).