Subject: Re: IPV6 "ipv4" addresses
To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/08/1999 18:36:05
>>It seems that if I open an ipv6 socket and send a packet to the ipv4
>>address (or to the ipv4 encapusated in an ipv6 address, with the ipv4
>>prefix) NetBSD doesn't send this out the wire as an IPV4 packet, but
>>instead I get "no route to host."
>>linux does this right, as do other ipv6 stacks I've dabbled in
>>recently. Shouldn't we?
> You mean "IPv4-mapped IPv6 address" (::ffff:10.1.1.1, section 2.5.4 in
> rfc2373), or "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address" (::10.1.1.1, section 2
> in rfc1933)?
see sys/netinet6/IMPLEMENTATION for more detailed list of what is
supported and what is not.
itojun