On Jul 13, 2011, at 01:00 , Philip Homburg wrote: > > I'm not aware of any system today that in the presence of just SLAAC can > figure out where the stateful firewall is hiding in the network and how to > get it to open the port you need automatically (i.e. whenever a host allocate > a passive socket). > > If you want to go that route, then IMHO, there is a huge amount of work to be > done. Certainly to get it to work transparently for every possible protocol > that runs on top of IPv6.
I don't believe there are any implementations, but I did propose a system to do this: <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-woodyatt-ald> It provoked an interesting and illustrative discussion once people understood just what ubiquitous deployment of a protocol to do this would mean for Internet privacy. -- james woodyatt <j...@apple.com> member of technical staff, core os networking -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
