On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Rémi Després wrote:
Keith Moore a écrit :
"IPv4 mapped" addresses (those of the form ::ffff:{ipv4 address}) should
never appear on the wire. Embedding an IPv4 address within an IPv6
address might make sense in certain cases, but it doesn't work in general.
If using them on the wire is useful, without any "identified" problem, why not ?
But if you already know of such problem, I am of course interested.
Incompatibility with source address spoofing prevention mechanisms.
P.S: please consider turning off HTML.
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