EricLKlein wrote: > > > EricLKlein wrote: > > ... > > > Our final decision > > > was that we can not convert our database to pure IPv6 and let the > hardware > > > translate for us, so we will have to do it in the appliaction. > > > > Of course. Full dual stack support is the only rational starting point; > > all the other coexistence mechanisms are second best. > > > But how close to a database (fro example) can the application vendor require > a dual stack. > > I can not see the OSS/NMS/BSS vendor requiring that their customer must run > Cisco router IOS 12.1 or higher. Therefore the application needs to have > some minimal dual intelligence built in.
That's why the basic dual stack mechanism includes tunnels - the server would need to establish a tunnel out to the nearest available IPv6 router. The application still sees the dual stack socket API. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
