Subject: Re: TCP v. TCP6 interop
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
From: Chris Jones <chris@cjones.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/18/2003 12:27:11
Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Chris Jones wrote:
>>What's going on here?  Even though I have no IPv6 DNS entries, legolas
>>is using IPv6.  Is the 4-in-6 address translation automatic, then?
> 
> The application on legolas could be using an IPv4-mapped address,
> which looks like IPv6 to the application, while using plain old IPv4
> transport. When you look at the numeric address, with "netstat -anf
> inet6", does it start with "::ffff"?

Yes.

Chris

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