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From: Davide Brini <dave_br@gmx.com>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: natting an ipv6 address into an ipv4 one?
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 09:35:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201102080935.19283.dave_br@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D510B89.5050706@campana.vi.it>

On Tuesday 08 Feb 2011 09:23:21 Ottavio Campana wrote:

> I have a question about ipv6 and nat.
> 
> Suppose you have a box with 2 NICs, one running ipv6 attached to the
> main network and one running ipv4 directly attached to an old device
> that does not support ipv6. Thus, the box with two NICs has to play the
> role of protocol translation, by taking IPV6 packets and send them with
> IPV4 to the old device
> 
> Is it possible to directly DNAT packets or do I have to do something
> different?

It sounds like you want NAT64, eg see

http://ecdysis.viagenie.ca/

-- 
D.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-02-08  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-08  9:23 natting an ipv6 address into an ipv4 one? Ottavio Campana
2011-02-08  9:35 ` Davide Brini [this message]

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