You set up a DS-Lite tunnel in LANconfig via by clicking on DS-Lite tunnel.
Then click on the Add button and enter the designation of the tunnel, the IPv6 address of the gateway, and the routing tag.
- Name of the tunnel
- This entry determines the name of the IPv4-over-IPv6 tunnel.
- Target interface
- Name of the underlying WAN interface or the underlying peer, e.g. INTERNET. Max. 16 characters as capital letters.
- Gateway address
- This entry defines the address of the DS-Lite gateway, the so-called Address Family Transition Router (AFTR).
The following values are possible:
- One IPv6 address, e.g. 2001:db8::1
- An FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) that can be resolved by DNS, e.g., aftr.example.com
- The IPv6 unspecified address "::" determines that the device should retrieve the address of the AFTRs via DHCPv6 (factory setting).
- An empty field behaves the same as the entry "::".
- IPv6 routing tag
- The routing tag uniquely specifies the route to the DS-Lite gateway.
Note: With DS-Lite, since the NAT is performed by the provider, the function of many applications depends on the settings of the NAT provider (e.g., SIP, IRC or IPSec). PPTP does not work via DS-Lite. If the provider does not operate port forwarding, the IPv4 server services do not function.
The status table and the number of current DS-Lite connections can be shown using LANmonitor:
