Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?)

Nathan Ward nanog at daork.net
Mon Sep 24 11:35:12 UTC 2007


On 24/09/2007, at 10:46 PM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
> There is something not correct here ... Proto-41 is supported by  
> many boxes,
> even NAT boxes, I guess by mistake from de vendor/implementation ...
>
> Basically many boxes just understand TCP and UDP and they decide to
> "pass-thru" other unknown protocols, instead of discarding them.

Probably doesn't work so well if you have 6k people behind the same  
NAT, and they all try and use proto-41, though.

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Nathan Ward




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