enterprise IPv6 only client computers and IPv4 connectivity

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 09:03:37AM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> If an enterprise today would decide that they're going to run IPv6 only on 
> their LAN, they would have recent Win7|Win8|OSX|Ubuntu clients on their 
> client computers, what mechanism would they use to access IPv4 Internet?

NAT64/DNS64 works very well, unless

 - someone uses literal IPv4 addresses to identify a service  (like,
   embedded references in http pages, loading some content from IPv4 
   addresses instead of hostnames)

 - that particular machine runs an application that does not know about
   IPv6 - most notably Skype.

[..]
> What other mechanism could be used to achieve IPv4 Internet reachability 
> over IPv6 only access for end-systems? HTTP proxy or SOCKS-proxy also 
> sounds too cumbersome.

A dual-stacked proxy would work, of course, but won't help for those 
problematic applications that want to do UDP but don't understand IPv6...

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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