This required the most support and configuration due to the lack of a generic translation mechanism or ALG. ALGs for the most popular applications like Web browsing and ftp are available, but is often lacking for increasingly popular applications like multiparty gaming and P2P filesharing applications. A generic solution is to add tunnelling of IPv4 in IPv6. But in some cases the combination of reduced MTU due to tunnelling and non-routable addresses (going through one or more NATs) caused some applications to fail. However, in most cases, tunnelling works fine and transparent to the applications. We are therefore now introducing tunnelling at the time the experimental network is turning into a more permanent service to its users.
