Subj : Trapgate & IPv6
To   : Markus Reschke
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Thu Dec 26 2013 11:39:24

Hello Markus,

On Tuesday December 24 2013 14:10, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> I may be interested if it is something I can install on my
 MvdV>> Linksys WRT54GL running OpenWrt, so that I can fool the rest of
 MvdV>> Fidonet into beleiveing that Irex running on my Windows machine
 MvdV>> is dual stack....

 MR> A simple proxy :-) You just need to create the outgoing connection to
 MR> your server, add some buffer management and let the main loop handle
 MR> all I/O.

Apart from the fact that I have no idea how to install such a thing on my router - I know almost nothing about Linux - I can envision how this would work on incoming.

 MR>  The only drawback is that your mailer will see the router as
 MR> source of all connections.

Not a big deal probably, as the log will carry enough information to tell the real origin.

But what about outgoing? For now that's more important. I can do without incoming over IPv6 for now, as I am not likely to loose my global IPv4 number in the foreseeable future, but when we see the first IPv6 only nodes, I need outgoing IPv6 to reach them.

I imagine an outgoing proxy would be a lot more complicated as it somehow has to be told to what IPv6 address to connect for which node...

I wonder if that would be practical to install on a router that has limited memory and only has a text ssh interface...


Cheers, Michiel

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