[99486] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Ward)
Mon Sep 24 07:39:56 2007
In-Reply-To: <C31D620D.1A9D04%jordi.palet@consulintel.es>
From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:35:12 +1200
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 24/09/2007, at 10:46 PM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
> There is something not correct here ... Proto-41 is supported by
> many boxes,
> even NAT boxes, I guess by mistake from de vendor/implementation ...
>
> Basically many boxes just understand TCP and UDP and they decide to
> "pass-thru" other unknown protocols, instead of discarding them.
Probably doesn't work so well if you have 6k people behind the same
NAT, and they all try and use proto-41, though.
--
Nathan Ward
