[Asterisk-Dev] need some suggestions

[Dorn Hetzel]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:51:46PM +0100, Ronald van der Pol wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 16:38:55 -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> 
> > But if I have a Linux box on the ipv6 network I cannot talk to ipv4 right?
> > And vice versa? Unless perhaps I have a network interface on each. I don't
> > see it nearly so much as a problem of equipment compatibility as the fact
> > that the networks cannot talk to each other.
> 
> That's right. Current thinking is using IPv4 and IPv6 in parallel.
> This is called dual stack. If your Linux box wants to talk to another
> host or server that is not IPv6 enabled yet, it will use IPv4. If the
> other side is IPv6 enabled, it will use IPv6. As more and more hosts
> and servers get IPv6 enabled, more and more traffic will flow via IPv6.
> It's a gradual move towards IPv6.
> 
> The biggest advantage of IPv6 is its large address space. Any node
> can get a globally routable address. There is no need for NAT and
> all the configuration problems of NAT do not exist in IPv6.
>

	I believe that for the foreseeable future, anyone doing IPv6
	*WILL* need to deal with NAT, at least if they want to talk 
	to the rest of the world.  v4->v6 NAT will be required to
	talk to the large body of folks still speaking v4.  

	-Dorn