Matthew Dempsky wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Stephan A. Rickauer > <[email protected]> wrote: >> An ipv6 only host with a non-link-local address should be able to use >> the ipv4 world. > > Is this just for fun/practice, or is there a reason you can't just > configure the host with both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address?
I guess there is a practical use here, that is, if your tools all understand IPv6, because then you only have an IPv6 "NAT" to IPv4 and you skip the IPv4 NAT to IPv4 in case you don't have any IPv4 addresses for your local network. I have to note that although these mechanisms exist (and they can work when properly configured, I did it once one long time ago, but forgot how it exactly was broken/setup) the "IETF" doesn't recommend using these kind of mechanisms and recommend that one does dual-stack, thus IPv4 native or NATted and IPv6 native. >> I don't want to deal with a tunnel broker, nor do I have >> native ipv6 access to the internet. > > I was hesitant to setup a tunnel broker for a while too, but it turned > out to be much less painful than I expected. As he has native IPv6 connectivity he doesn't need a tunnel broker. I guess he confused a 'tunnel broker' with an entity that can convert IPv6->IPv4. Greets, Jeroen [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
