so you are proposing assign different IPv4 address to the DS-Lite host,
is this public or private?

I still don't understand how this tunneling could be setup between hosts?

thanks

-Hui

2009/11/24 Durand, Alain <[email protected]>:
> Yes... Whenever you do the shortcuts, you bump into the non trivial
> questions to know who you are talking to...
> Now, if v4 addresses are allocated via DHCPv4 over the IPv6 tunnel, this
> problem can be solved. Is it worth the effort or not depend on how much the
> shortcuts are going to save you...
>
>  - Alain.
>
>
> On 11/23/09 1:10 PM, "james woodyatt" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Nov 23, 2009, at 08:53, Durand, Alain wrote:
>>>
>>> 4 could be a very straightforward extension of DS-lite. If you know the
>>> common IPv6 prefix shared by adjacent nodes, you can directly tunnel to 
>>> them.
>>> In practice, you¹ll have a default route to the AFTR and a subnet route for
>>> the ³local² prefix.
>>
>> Also, to support the direct host-to-host tunneling, the DS-lite extension
>> would need to allow for many DS-lite subscribers to share a single IPv4
>> private address realm.  I think DS-lite currently requires that each IPv6
>> subscriber is isolated within their own IPv4 private address realm, and
>> therefore a twice-NAT44 gateway is required for IPv4-only applications to
>> communicate between DS-lite subscribers.
>>
>>
>> --
>> james woodyatt <[email protected]>
>> member of technical staff, communications engineering
>>
>>
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