On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 04:36:50PM -0400, b...@theworld.com wrote: > > On October 4, 2019 at 15:26 o...@delong.com (Owen DeLong) wrote: > > > > OK… Let’s talk about how? > > > > How would you have made it possible for a host that only understands > 32-bit addresses to exchange traffic with a host that only has a 128-bit > address? > > A bit in the header or similar (version field) indicating extending > addressing (what we call IPv6, or similar) is in use for this packet.
How does that allow the host that only understands 32-bit addresses to exchange traffic with a host which sets this header bit? - Matt
