Comparison of ipv6 tunneled traffic of Teredo and ISATAP over test-bed setup

Among the IPv6 tunneling techniques, this paper compares the tunneling overhead of two recent IPv6 tunneling techniques: Teredo, and ISATAP. These protocols were implemented on real test bed setup, on Microsoft Windows (MS Windows XP and MS Windows Server 2003) and Linux operating systems. Five to six devices were used to setup the whole test bed. Each protocol was then implemented on the setup using specific configuration commands. UDP audio streaming, video streaming and ICMP-ping traffic was run. Four different runs of traffic were routed over the setup for each protocol. The average of the data was taken to generate graphs and final results. The comparison of tunneled traffic of these techniques has been performed through certain parameters, namely: tunneling overhead, tunnel setup delay, query delay, and auxiliary devices required.