forwarding *some* web traffic to a virtual machine

[William Muriithi]

James
>>> Matt
>>>
>> Have you considered IPv6?  You can use a tunnel broker (I use
>> http://gogonet.gogo6.com) to get an IPv6 address, even if one would not
>> otherwise be available.  I have a /56 subnet* on my home network and get a
>> single IPv6 address on my notebook when I'm away from home.  GogoNET has
>> clients for Linux, Windows, Mac etc., which can be configured for either
>> subnet or single address mode.
I am not certain this will help Matt. He is trying to avoid using 2
IPv4 IPs but still be reachable by the public - Who are all still
mostly in IPv4.  I think he solution is some kind of NAT/PAT and that
is it

Problem with using IPv6 is he will still not be reachable from IPv4.
Those two protocols have different headers - for efficiency reasons -
and therefore not compatible.  That imply he will need a kind a
tunnel, but one way or the other that tunnel will expose the IPv6 as 2
IPv4 IPs.  So the initial problem will still remain only far down the
stream. I could be wrong though

>>
>> * A /56 subnet is about a trillion times the size on the entire, world
>> wide, IPv4 internet.
>>
>> --
>
> I did wonder about it, though I'm completely ignorant of IPv6 One question:
> - is there still a significant fraction of users who can't access IPv6?  I
> remember I'he had IPv6 turned off on some machines because of wierd bugs in
> low-level services, I think involving interactions with MS DNS or something
> (not sure that's right); anyway is that sitll a issue?  I ask only because I
> want to be sure everyone can access all the sites.  And also, I guess, how
> hard is it to set up ipv6 interfaces -- do they use the same syntax in
> /etc/network/interfaces, for instance?  If so then it does seem like a
> really good option; the bridged network, once set up, is so transparent to
> use, I'm very grateful for that.
>
> matt
>

Agree, setting up IPv6 is not hard.  The hard part is making yourself
reachable from the majority of the people out there.  I love IPv6, but
I still think that until we hit that critical mass, its more painful
using IPv6 than IPv4.  I do not doubt that will happen, likely in the
next 2 to 3 years.  Will be great to have NAT behind us after that

William
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