> Sure. I can imagine a Linux implementation of "4via6 translation
> support". If enabled, the TCP/IP stack would only bind to specific ports
> (from the range). If you check the section III./C of the following paper:
>
> http://zhuyc.info/globecom08mivi.pdf
>
> the authors propose a modification "to the system call related to bind()
> in the socket library of the operating system".

That is not practicable. You can't do such modification on innumerable hosts.

> Then I could just connect my home gateway-server directly to the ISPs
> network, providing support for "4via6 translation" and that's it.
>
> Also, I see is as a use case in non-ISP environments, where you could
> have IPv6-only, but 4via6 enabled server networks, with servers supporting
> "4via6 translation". Like SA46T-AS, for example.
>
> The main advantage of all this is of course that the IPv4 address is then
> natively configured on the (virtual) interface.

Sorry. I still can't see much benefits from that.

Gang
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