[121400] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are IPv6-only Internet services viable today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Durand, Alain)
Sun Jan 17 09:44:54 2010
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:43:44 -0500
From: "Durand, Alain" <alain_durand@cable.comcast.com>
To: Jim Burwell <jimb@jsbc.cc>,
Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B51B930.8040407@jsbc.cc>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1/16/10 8:03 AM, "Jim Burwell" <jimb@jsbc.cc> wrote:
> Could well be the case. My idea was that you could do it either way.
> You could have a DS-Lite gateway (Typical. Likely built into the "cable
> modem" or similar device), or in the case where no gateway is available,
> a DS-Lite "client" (basically a virtual nic/tunnel driver) on the
> machine would establish the tunnel and an IPv4 address itself. But
> perhaps this latter method was never intended?
You mean, tunnel directly to the end host?
We have been thinking about extensions to allow that 'short-cut', AFTR-less
mode. It is doable if you can establish a 1 to 1 mapping between the IPv4
and the IPv6 address **and** you find a way for host A to figure out host
B's IPv4 and IPv6 addresses...
- Alain.
