Re: IPv6 NAT?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont at nokia.com>]

Le Tuesday 19 February 2008 11:02:49 ext Dan Wing, vous avez écrit :
> > > Is this functionality already available in Vista and Leopard?
> >
> > I ignore whether the "privacy extension of stateless
> > autoconfiguration" of RFC 4941 is supported.

It is supported in XP/Vista, and used by default for outgoing connections.
It is supported by Linux, but outgoing connections default to the EUI64 
address. Not sure about OSX.

> > The "one new address per outgoing connection" rule, which I
> > propose here for the fist time, would IMHO be worth implementing
> > in addition to RFC 4941.
> >
> > But some more work to specify it in details would be needed
> > before that.
> > Some support of the idea would be a prerequisite.
>
> It would be interesting to write it down, and to see what
> would break if the IP stack acquired and provided a fresh
> v6 address to every new connection.  Maybe nothing would
> break, which would be great.

Overkill.

RFC 5014 already specifies an API to control privacy extensions.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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