What I wonder about are some of the IPv6 advanced features, like built in encryption, that would fail as far as endpoint to endpoint is concerned with an IPv6-to-IPv4 translation router.
Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 12:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [semi-OT] Last IPv4 address blocks assigned Should be able to NAT at the firewall so one could keep internal v4 addresses. At least, I hope so. What a nightmare that could become if internal needed v6, too. > From: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 12:22:04 -0500 > Subject: Re: [semi-OT] Last IPv4 address blocks assigned > To: [email protected] > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:03 AM, N Parr <[email protected]> wrote: > > You won't need to > > be on v6 internal to get to the public net. > > I think that depends on how your web browsers connect. If you're > using plain HTTP, then in order to reach a website which is IPv6 only, > won't you need IPv6 on the clients and LAN in order for them to be > able to get to that website? > > Or we do like IPX-only LANs did, and use an HTTP proxy and a > different LAN protocol. IPv4 on the LAN to the proxy server, which > does the DNS lookup and goes IPv6 from there. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
