Subj : IPv6 test
To   : Tommi Koivula
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Mon Sep 07 2015 01:04:04

Hello Tommi,

On Sunday September 06 2015 15:32, you wrote to me:

 >> The "system" that answers on IPv6 is more than just binkd/OS2. It is
 >> a combination of binkd running on OS/2 and an IPv6 to IPv4 proxy
 >> running on Windows. Your "system" is is mixed OS/2-Windows system.

 TK> Right. What about IPv4 then.. My OS/2 machine has one and only IPv4
 TK> address: 192.168.1.2. There needs to be a NAT router between the
 TK> Internet and OS/2.

Hmmm... I think you are confusing cause and effect here. What you say is that you need a NAT router because of the 192.168.1.2 address. But it is the other way around. You have the 192.168.1.2 address because you choose to put a NAT router between your system and the Internet. It will work perfectly well if you remove the NAT router and directly connect it to the Internet.

 TK>  - Linux NAT For IPv4.
 TK>  - Windows Portproxy for IPv6.

 TK> What is the difference? ;-)

That IPv4 will work without the Linux NAT and IPv6 will not work without the Windows port proxy.

 >> So the netsh proxy runs on a different machine.

 TK> The netsh portproxy for incoming traffic is running at the same
 TK> computer than squid for outgoing traffic.

What I meant is that the portproxy runs on a different computer than the mailer.

 TK> Squid and netsh are running on Windows 2003 server.
 TK> "\\HAL has been up for: 115 day(s), 21 hour(s), 25 minute(s),"

So maybe the port proxy is more stabel on Windows 2003 server than on Win XP.

 >> I wonder if I can run a similar proxy on my OpenWrt router...

 TK> That would be nice indeed. I know that it is possible to run privoxy
 TK> on a router. I don't know about inbound v6->v4 thing but if it is
 TK> possible to do with windows, it has to be possible with linux router.
 TK> :)

Sure, Theoretically it is possible. The question is if someone already wrote the code and if it will run on my Linksys WRT54GL with OpenWrt.


Cheers, Michiel

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