On 11 nov 2007, at 1:38, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
No, SHANTI will work out of the box for any application that runs through a traditional NAT or NAPT without problems *and* has been upgraded to AF_INET6 sockets.
Ugh! Mixing IPv6 and NAT is something that I'd really like to avoid.
I've been trying to avoid it since 1994. My conclusion is that it is sadly impossible to avoid port translation, hence SHANTI. Read it before you condemn it...
I'm not condemning it. And I've already read it. :-)I'll have a draft of the approach that I wrote about on october 19 on monday. It's like SHANTI in a lot of ways. One important difference is that host can use AF_INET sockets to talk to IPv4 destinations, so applications have the option of limiting the application of NAT code to AF_INET sockets or the situation where they detect an RFC 1918 source address. (And applications that don't yet support AF_INET6 also work.)