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You're leaving out what happens if an ipv4 only host gets a packet from an ipv5 host. It only knows how to respond to a 4-byte address. If you manage to solve
by aidenn0 4y ago
You're leaving out what happens if an ipv4 only host gets a packet from an ipv5 host. It only knows how to respond to a 4-byte address.
If you manage to solve that problem, you'll probably have invented something a lot like NAT64, which TFA talks about.
- hot_gril 4y agoDrops the packet and the sender retries with v4. Ipv6's solution to packet fragmentation has the hosts retry too, iirc. But I'm a little rusty on this subject; would this actually work?