On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 11:36:44PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: To reply to myself after some extra reading and a little thinking, but someone better correct me incase I err:
... > 1) IPv4-Compatible is an ordinary IPv4 address, prefixed with zero's (::). yep > 2) IPv4-Compatible is invalid? nop, that depends:) ::192.168.1.1 seems silly as 192.168.1.1 is a privat IPv4 nr, and prefixing it with :: might suggest otherwise as this turns it in a IPv4-Compatible address, and such addresses are valid outsite the localsite. Contradiction, so better not do it. > 3) IPv4-Mapped is an ordinary IPv4 address, prefixed with ::ffff. yep > 4) IPv4-Mapped is almost depricated, i.e. the `on-the-wire' form at least. not sure about this one. -- groetjes, carel
