Jeroen Massar wrote: > George P Boutwell wrote: > >> I would like to as part of my plans to re-do my current firewall/gateway >> to the Internet to set it up to have a dual-stack and for it to >> translate ipv4 incoming to ipv6 destinations and vice versa... Basically >> I'd like an good old-fashioned ipv4<->ipv6 NAT... Is there such a thing, >> if so where can I find more information on what I necessary to set this up? >> > > It was called NAT-PT. Note the *was* in that short sentence. The > mechanism has been deprecated for the very obvious reason that it breaks > a lot of protocols and generates more problems than that it solves. > > If you could explain exactly what kind of problem you have then I am > sure we can come up with a better alternative to your problem. > > I want to be able to access ipv6 services, http, ftp, ssh and whatever from machines behind my firewall/gateway machine (which would be dual-homed). Machines behind this are older machines and run ipv4 only OSes so making them IPv6 is out of the question (as far as I know). ISP is not IPv6 capable. I know that IPv6 won't be ideal or supper speedy but seriously I want to have access it IPv6 now, rather than later.
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