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IPv6 NAT

IPv6 NAT

Posted Aug 30, 2011 23:20 UTC (Tue) by baldur (guest, #77305)
In reply to: IPv6 NAT by mstefani
Parent article: IPv6 NAT

"So you have 2 global addresses on the hosts and the applications/hosts will "randomly" pick one as source address."

No, the host should follow the rules set out in RFC 3484: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3484.txt

More specifically the host will use the source address with the longest common prefix of the destination address. This rule guarantees that the ULA address will be used to communicate with other ULAs. And the GUA for other GUAs.


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