On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 10:30 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
G T Smith wrote:
The wiki article below seems to suggest that implementing a form of NAT for IPv6 is under discussion by the IETF...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6
Also suggests the implementation is not exactly consistent (or as simple as intended)...
NAT seems completely superfluous when the networks are dished out as /64. I did notice that there is a reserved range of private/local/site-unique addresses (prefix fd), but I'm not quite sure what that is intended for.
My understanding is those are addresses that can be used within an organization, either through a router or not, but not accessable by the world. This is exactly what NAT provides, beyond using local RFC1918 addresses. I suspect this may be a case of someone raising a question because they don't understand the situation.
Could it have something todo with hooking up ipv4-rfc1918 nodes on a IPv6 network? Some machines will never be able to speak V6, and i'm not shure how to an address-translation with ip(6)tables. (I mean, incase one does not have an public IPv4 address anymore) hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org