Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:05:06PM -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
>> Andrew Suffield wrote:
>>> On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 01:04:07PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
>>>> Andrew Suffield wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> But beware -- ipt6tables does not support any form of NAT.
>>>>> So if you want to deploy ipv6 in production alongside an existing ipv4
>>>>> network (like, say, the internet), then you're screwed.
>>>> No, you're simply obliged to route IPv6, even if your current IPv4 setup
>>>> uses NAT.  My understanding is that the formulators of IPv6 view NAT as
>>>> a hack that works around the limitations in IPv4 that they removed in
>>>> IPv6.  To a certain extent i understand their philosophy, although i'm
>>>> not convinced NAT is as evil as they say it is...
>>> I think you missed the point - if the only way to handle a combined
>>> ipv4/ipv6 setup is to use ip6tables for everything, then you cannot
>>> use NAT for your *ipv4* network.
>> I'm currently running a combined IPv4/IPv6 router that is using NAT for
>> IPv4 and straight routing for IPv6. I'm using Shorewall (iptables) for
>> the IPv4 firewall and I'm using ip6tables for the IPv6 firewall (until I
>> get Shorewall6 running)
> 
> Interesting - so how do you handle traffic moving between the ipv4 and
> ipv6 networks?

I don't -- the two networks are completely parallel. Each local host has
both an IPv4 address and an IPv6 address.

-Tom
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