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42.  What is an IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel?

Is a transition mechanism that allows IPv6 machines to communicate among them through an IPv4 network.

The mechanism consists in creating the IPv6 packets in a normal way and introducing them in an IPv4 packet. The reverse process it is realized in the destination machine, which receives an IPv6 packet.

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