Re: IPv4_MAPPED destination addresses

[Sogor Laszlo <sogor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hello!

On Wed, 10 May 2000 kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > We found the codes that were responsible for the  "IPv6->IPv4 fall back",
> > we commented it out.
> 
> And broke all the stack, right?
> 
> Mapped addresses must never leave host and host cannot use
> mapped addresses talking to IPv6 world. Seems, I do not understand
> your problem at all.

The SIIT only converts IPv6 packets with IPv4 MAPPED IPv6 destination
and IPv4 TRANSLATED IPv6 source addresses. So to send a packet from an
IPv6 only host to an IPv4 only host we MUST send an IPv6 packet with
MAPPED/TRANSLATED addresses (d/s) over the translator. 

shogy