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Re: Follow-up work on NAT-PT



Hi,

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 07:35:43AM -0800, Christian Huitema wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 08:12:27AM -0800, Christian Huitema wrote:
> > > Implementing "dual stack" is not much harder than implementing "IPv6
> > > only", so this is pretty much a no-brainer.
> >
> > I want to challenge that.  How are you going to implement "dual stack"
> > if no more IPv4 addresses are available?
> 
> I meant "implementing dual stack in a device". Suppose you have
> built an IPv6 capable device. The added requirements for supporting
> IPv4 boils down to DHCPv4 client, ARP support, and a little bit of
> glue. That really is not a lot of "real estate".

I agree - and I misunderstood this (as Stephen Sprunk also pointed out)
as "deploying in a network".  The network stack should not very hard.

Gert
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