17 Aug
1995
17 Aug
'95
8:03 p.m.
David,
But isn't it possible to have a router convert from an IPv6 address with provider bits to an IPv4 address by simply stripping all but the lowest 32 bits from the IPv6 address?
The hosts on the LAN remain entirely IPv4, but the addresses that leave the router have the provider bits added by the router.
You can't strip a non-zero part of IPv6 address, as this would cause transport layer pseudo-header checksum to fail. Yakov.