You can initiate communications from the IPv4 side provided the NAT-PT device incorporates DNS-ALG functionality, and you implement and configure your DNS appropriately.
Mat > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ant�nio Amaral > Sent: 07 June 2004 11:07 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: bidiretional NATPT > > Dear All, > > After reading the NATPT Kame manual I'got the Idea that it is > possible to > start the communications on IPv4 side to IPv6 side. > > Then, I've configured the natpt.conf file for that and I can > ping to an IPv4 > virtual address that represents an IPv6 real host, so I > conclude that I can > initiate the communications on IPv4 side. > > Regards > > > ------------------------------------------ > Ant�nio Manuel N. C. Amaral > Networks and Multimedia > Institute of Telecommunications - Aveiro > P-3810-193 AVEIRO - PORTUGAL > Phone: +351 234 377900 > Fax: +351 234 377901 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tina > Strauf (JOIN Projekt Team) > Sent: segunda-feira, 7 de Junho de 2004 8:19 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: bidiretional NATPT > > 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. > > regards, > > Tina > > -- > > JOIN - IP Version 6 in the WiN Tina Strauf > A DFN project Westfaelische > Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster > http://www.join.uni-muenster.de Zentrum fuer Informationsverarbeitung > Team: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roentgenstrasse 9-13 > Priv: [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-48149 Muenster / Germany > GPG-/PGP-Key-ID: 923F61D0 Fon: +49 251 83 31833, Fax: > +49 251 83 31653 > > "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert > Einstein > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The IPv6 Users Mailing List > Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The IPv6 Users Mailing List > Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
