Stability analysis and performance comparison of three 6to4 relay implementations

During the IPv6 deployment there is a frequently occurring situation where two IPv6 enabled hosts need to communicate with each other over a network that supports only IPv4. Application of the 6to4 IPv6 transition method can solve this problem. The performance and stability of the different 6to4 relay implementations is a very important subject. We measured the performance and tested the stability of three open source 6to4 relay implementations under Debian Linux, OpenBSD and OpenWRT platforms. We present and discuss our results, analyze the stability of the 6to4 relay implementations and compare their performance metrics. Our measurements methods may be useful for other researchers, and our results may help the system architects to choose the appropriate solution.