Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:33:10 -0700 From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: IPv4->IPv6 conversion suite? Message-ID: <39070C36.93C9118F@quack.kfu.com>
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I have just set up IPv6 on my network at home, and there was much rejoicing. :-) Now the problem is that legacy apps don't have v6 support. One idea I have floating around in my head is the idea of a socks-like combination of libc support and faith to allow IPv6-only networks to participate in ipv4 using faith as a proxy. Such a library would merely need a single input -- an IPV4PREFIX. It would take the socket(), connect(), etc calls for the AF_INET domain and turn them into AF_INET6 calls with the address being made out of the IPv4 input address and the IPV4PREFIX. With this in place, entire IPv6 networks could "hide" behind a single IPv4 address with which they could conduct IPv4 business, while using IPv6 natively. IMHO common deployment would speed the retirement of IPv4. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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