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Re: Modified IPv6 to unmodified IPv4




On 19/10/2007, at 9:05 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

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A is an IPv6 host
B is an IPv4 server
T is a translator
X is a client app on A
Y is a server app on B

So X thinks it is running on an IPv4 host which has address 10.6.6.6 (or whatever well-known RFC 1918 address we want to use). In reality, A is an IPv6 host with address 2001:db8:31::1. When X wants to talk to Y, it looks up the relevant domain name and sees address 64.0.0.64. So it opens a TCP connection to 64.0.0.64. A then generates and IPv6 packet with source 2001:db8:31::1 and destination <96 fixed bits>:64.0.0.64. T translates the IPv6 packet into an IPv4 packet with source 10.6.6.6 and destination 64.0.0.64 and then proceeds to NAT, using 2001:db8:31::1 under the hood to demultiplex rather than 10.6.6.6 because 10.6.6.6 is implicitly used by ALL clients of T. X sees the <address of T>/64.0.0.64 packets and Y may or may not notice and subsequently may or may not work around the "IPv4 NAT" in the path.

It is unclear to me why one would not just deploy traditional IPv4 NAPT and regular IPv6 - it works with existing protocols, is significantly more simple, and end user hardware is (we are told) being worked on.

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Nathan Ward