Re: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?)

On 24/09/2007, at 10:46 PM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:

There is something not correct here ... Proto-41 is supported by many boxes, even NAT boxes, I guess by mistake from de vendor/implementation ...

Basically many boxes just understand TCP and UDP and they decide to "pass-thru" other unknown protocols, instead of discarding them.

Probably doesn't work so well if you have 6k people behind the same NAT, and they all try and use proto-41, though. -- Nathan Ward