Am Sa, den 05.06.2004 schrieb Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino um 1:06: > > Kame NATPT translation mechanism is a bidirectional mechanism? > > no. just like IPv4 NAT, it is unidirectional, and IPv6-to-IPv4 only. > (you cannot identify IPv6 host from IPv4 host) > Afaik none of the IPv6-IPv4 translation mechanisms (be it NAT-PT or TRT or...) does support communication initiated by outside (IPv4) sources yet. IPv6/IPv4 addresses are just not mappable bidirectionally. I know that with DSTM there where at least plans to tackle the problem of incorporating this feature somehow. Don't know what became of it and also don't really know, how this should/could be done.
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