On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 00:59 -0800, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Jeroen Massar <jer...@unfix.org> > wrote: > > I guess there is a practical use here, that is, if your tools all > > understand IPv6, because then you only have an IPv6 "NAT" to IPv4 > and > > you skip the IPv4 NAT to IPv4 in case you don't have any IPv4 > addresses > > for your local network. > > It's possible he has a network so large that he has run out of IPv4 > addresses, but I suspect if that was the case, he wouldn't be asking > for help here. :-)
Bingo! Our institute ran out of ipv4 addresses and we were assigned a couple of ipv6 address ranges by University. However, University who operates the network (gateways, routers etc.) don't route/care about/support ipv6 yet officially. Well, it's a University, why would they be interested in being ahead ... Anyhow, this is why I wanted to use ipv6-only clients behind an ipv4-to ipv6 relay (I know that we could just simply nat more private ipv4 addresses, but that is not an option right now). For sure OpenBSD brings all you need to do it - it's just that I am stuck at the moment and can't see why... but maybe I'll figure it out today! -- Stephan A. Rickauer ----------------------------------------------------------- Institute of Neuroinformatics Tel +41 44 635 30 50 University / ETH Zurich Sec +41 44 635 30 52 Winterthurerstrasse 190 Fax +41 44 635 30 53 CH-8057 Zurich Web www.ini.uzh.ch
