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Re: CIDR FAQ
From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov () cisco com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 11:03:36 PDT
David,
But isn't it possible to have a router convert from an IPv6 address with provider bits to an IPv4 address by simply stripping all but the lowest 32 bits from the IPv6 address? The hosts on the LAN remain entirely IPv4, but the addresses that leave the router have the provider bits added by the router.
You can't strip a non-zero part of IPv6 address, as this would cause transport layer pseudo-header checksum to fail. Yakov.
Current thread:
- Re: CIDR FAQ, (continued)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Tony Li (Aug 15)
- Re: CIDR FAQ John G. Scudder (Aug 15)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Sean Doran (Aug 15)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Owen DeLong (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Yakov Rekhter (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Ruediger Volk (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ bmanning (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ David J. Schmidt (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Yakov Rekhter (Aug 17)
- Re: CIDR FAQ David J. Schmidt (Aug 17)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Yakov Rekhter (Aug 17)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Jon Zeeff (Aug 17)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Yakov Rekhter (Aug 17)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Dave Siegel (Aug 17)
- Re: CIDR FAQ bmanning (Aug 17)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Dave Siegel (Aug 17)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Gary Wright (Aug 17)