ipv6 question

[Genes MailLists]

On 01/02/2011 08:54 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
>
>> Probably the simplest approach is to use a router appliance that groks
>> IPv6 for the WAN, and IPv4 for the LAN.  On a Linux system, if you want
>> it to be your firewall--and a lot of us are hard-headed enough to do
>> so--I'd put in two NICs and use only the outward-facing NIC for IPv6,
>> confguring the internal for IPv4.
>>
> 
>  Thanks for your thoughts ... I was slowly coming to exactly that
> solution ...
> 
>   Then I think you're saying NAT is here to stay .. in which case how
> exactly on a linux border firewall with internal ip4 and external ip6
> does one NAT ?
> 
>   Do we build a ip4 NAT to ip4 - and then route that nat'ed ip4 to ip6 ?
> 
> 


   If you are correct - then the obvious solution is to make ip6 NAT ...
which was designed out of the thing ...

   gah ...