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Re: Are IPv6-only Internet services viable today?
- From: Durand, Alain
- Date: Sun Jan 17 09:44:34 2010
On 1/16/10 8:03 AM, "Jim Burwell" <jimb@jsbc.cc> wrote:
> Could well be the case. My idea was that you could do it either way.
> You could have a DS-Lite gateway (Typical. Likely built into the "cable
> modem" or similar device), or in the case where no gateway is available,
> a DS-Lite "client" (basically a virtual nic/tunnel driver) on the
> machine would establish the tunnel and an IPv4 address itself. But
> perhaps this latter method was never intended?
You mean, tunnel directly to the end host?
We have been thinking about extensions to allow that 'short-cut', AFTR-less
mode. It is doable if you can establish a 1 to 1 mapping between the IPv4
and the IPv6 address **and** you find a way for host A to figure out host
B's IPv4 and IPv6 addresses...
- Alain.
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