I'm talking about using NAT-PT to allow a native ipv6 network to talk to an ipv4 network. Without some kind of protocol translation (aka PT) ipv6 can't talk to ipv4. The reason this has to be done is because you can't buy an ipv6 connection to an ISP in NZ yet. -----Original Message----- From: Cameron Kerr [mailto:cameron(a)humbledown.org] Sent: Saturday, 26 February 2005 2:27 p.m. To: Philip D'Ath Cc: nznog Subject: Re: [nznog] IPv6, NAT-PT On 26/02/2005, at 1:25 PM, Philip D'Ath wrote:
I'm trying to get NAT-PT support working on a Cisco DSL router to support native ipv6 clients behind it. I've done a lot of searching, and can't find the answers to what I'm doing wrong. I have two problems.
Why are you using NAT with IPv6? There is very little reason pros for using IPv6 with NAT, and many cons. Afterall, NAT is just a hack for IPv4 to prevent address exhaustion. IIRC, ISPs are not to give out single IP addresses, but rather /64 allocations. Anyone care to correct me on this? -- Cameron Kerr Telecommunications Teaching Fellow & SysAdmin ckerr(a)cs.otago.ac.nz