Re: Linux.conf.au 2003 Report

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:21:21PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> What do you mean with "compatibility addresses"? I don't know of
> any such thing.

I'm thinking of these sorts of things (my faviourite description,
from RFC 2893):

IPv6/IPv4 nodes that perform automatic tunneling are assigned
IPv4-compatible address. An IPv4-compatible address is identified by
an all-zeros 96-bit prefix, and holds an IPv4 address in the
low-order 32-bits. IPv4-compatible addresses are structured as
follows:

| 96-bits | 32-bits |
+--------------------------------------+--------------+
| 0:0:0:0:0:0 | IPv4 Address |
+--------------------------------------+--------------+
IPv4-Compatible IPv6 Address Format

A

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