> -----Original Message----- > From: Dimitrios Pezaros [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 2:32 PM > To: Manfredi, Albert E; ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: RE: Making private IPv4 addresses public > > I guess another problem here would be the en-route option > processing in IPv4 > which would make traffic to/from NATed boxes (even) slower > and would require > intermediate boxes to implement/process such option, so not sure how > grafecul this mechanism would be.
Thanks for all the comments. I'm not sure what different the intermediate routers would have to do, if anything. I suppose they would have to know to "ignore the private IP address option in the IP header." Yes, I do understand that this is not IPv6. It's a way of tackling the address space problem without depending on a new version of IP or even on a new address format. And it allows for global address expansion without even bothering to request addresses from anyone. I don't think this last feature is available with any other scheme I've seen so far? Bert -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
