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Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt

2000-04-25 15:10:02
    > From: Keith Moore <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu>

    > I don't see what you're getting at. the outside sites may be running v4
    > with a limited number of external addresses ... if they are running v6
    > they will have plenty of external addresses.

Not external *IPv4* addresses, they won't - which is what kind of addresses
they need to communicate with other IPv4 sites.

    > if the remote sites are *only* running IPv4, having v6 locally won't
    > help much. ... it's generally true that if you're talking between a
    > v6-only and v4-only host you have to accept the limitations of NAT.

That's the point I've been trying to make.

        Noel