Hello Remi,

I guess 4V6 CE need to recognize whether received IPv6 prefix is CE
IPv6 prefix, which is used to generate a shared IPv4 address. Then, it
should be no problem to distinguish native IPv6 or an IPv6 address CE
should translated.

Gang

2011/7/19, Rémi Després <[email protected]>:
> Hi, all,
>
> 1.
> The translation-based stateless solution for IPv4 via IPv6 described in
> draft-murakami-softwire-4v6-translation-00 seems to have a significant
> limitation:
> - When a 4V6T customer-edge node receives a packet from a CE of the same
> 4V6T domain, it doesn't know whether it must treat it as a native IPv6
> packet from this CE or as an IPv4 packet that this CE has translated.
>
>
>         <-- 4V6T domain -->   <-- IPv4 Internet --
>
> (A) 4V6T CE |---->----.
>                       |
>                       V---- 4v6T-BR --- - - -
>                       |
> (B) 4V6T CE |----<----'
>         <= v4 or v6 ??
>
> For instance, if the IPv4 address of (B) is shared, (B) doesn't know whether
> received packets must go to its internal NAT44, or be treated a real IPv6
> packet.
> (Sending to the NAT44 packets whose ports are currently bound in the NAT44
> wouldn't be satisfactory: all ports may be used in IPv6).
>
> 2.
> Note that this problem doesn't apply to the encapsulation-based stateless
> solution (4V6E):
> - A 4V6E CE treats a received IPv6 packet as containing an IPv4 packet if,
> and only if, its Next header is IP-in-IP, and the encapsulated packet is
> IPv4. There is no ambiguity.
>
> => Unless something is wrong in the above, or a palliative is devised,
> consideration of this should be added to the comparative analysis of 4V6T
> and 4V6E solutions (draft-dec-stateless-4v6).
>
>
> Regards,
> RD
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