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Re: The state of IPv6 multihoming development

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:20:03PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> 
> It shouldn't if these boxes just replace prefixes. In current NAT setups
> much more is changed: the entire address, not just a prefix, for
> starters, and also a port number and the TCP/UDP checksum. In the setup
> I'm talking about just the prefix (presumably, the 48 most significant
> bits) change and everything else remains the same, so no need to keep
> state.

Well, that has been punted around as an idea for some time (8+8 or 6+2+8).

e.g. from 1995/6:
http://www.wcug.wwu.edu/lists/ipng/199612/msg00116.html

Tim