Subj : Re: the IPv6 x IPv4 fidonet matrix
To   : August Abolins
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Fri Jan 03 2020 11:45 am

-=> On 01-02-20 19:53, August Abolins wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 AA> On 31/12/2019 6:18 p.m., Tony Langdon : August Abolins wrote:

 TL> Appropriate routing will help. Systems like mine, that have
 TL> connectivity both ways on IPv4 and IPv6 will be a key..

 AA> Hi Tony,

 AA> The solution solving for the new scenario ought to be in each sysop's
 AA> wheelhouse, purview and interest to make things work.  But, there will
 AA> be compromises. The direct P2P connectivity as per the nodelist, the
 AA> luxury of bi-directional crash mail, will have glitches though.

We had that in the past - some modems wouldn't connect, and sometimes there
were incompatibilities, though for the most part, dialup Fido nodes were able
to communicate directly.

 AA> Lots of fun to look forward too.  :)  Hope it doesn't frustrate too
 AA> many and just give up.

I'm up for a bit of fun. :)

Tunneling and proxying are a couple of solutions.

I've become a sign of what the future could look like for some nodes.  I run
native IPv6, and am bringing in extra IPv4 addresses over IPv6 using OpenVPN.
For me it's a bit of a luxury to get extra addresses - I _could_ have done port
forwarding from my public IPv4 provided by the ISP, but I wanted to give each
system its own IPv4 address, and didn't want to be using a bunch of non
standard ports.


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