forwarding *some* web traffic to a virtual machine

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Thu Sep 9 15:53:34 UTC 2010


D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | 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
>
> Makes sense to me.  You'd need a way to address all IPv6 endpoints
> with an IPv4 address.  This cannot be done because there are only
> 232  IPv4 addresses and 2128  IPv6 addresses.
>
>    
As I mentioned earlier, use the tunnel broker on all the computers that 
need access, as well as on the server.  That way, everyone has IPv6 
available.

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