ipv6 PC should access ipv4 website

[avanth chidurala]

what is the configuration for below example

PC having only having IPv6/IPv4 address should access the website having IPv4/IPv6 address

[Harold Ritter]

Hi Avanth,

If you have ipv6 only hosts in your network that need to access ipv4 only services on the Internet, you can use NAT64 to achieve that.

If you have ipv4 only hosts in your network that need to access ipv6 only services on the Internet, the best way would be to deploy ipv6 in your network and make the hosts dual stack.

Best regards,

[avanth chidurala]

Harold Ritter Sir,

Where  should I use NAT64 in network.....? Whether it is behind the Data centre where the website hosted or in my network.....?

[Harold Ritter]

Hi Avanth,

Thanks for the clarification about the DC center part. If the goal is to deploy in the DC to make your services available on the Internet via IPv6, there are a couple of strategies:

- Use an IPv6 enabled CDN service such as Akamai or CloudFlare. This requires no changes in your DC as such.

- Use a load balancer that accepts connections on an ipv6 address and connects to servers using ipv4. This requires deploying IPv6 to your datacenter, but not to your servers.

- Use a NAT64 device to do the translation between request coming over IPv6 and internal servers using IPv4. This requires deploying IPv6 to your datacenter, but not to your servers.

- Deploy IPv6 down to the servers. This is the ultimate goal.

Regards,

[avanth chidurala]

Sir,

Could you please explain in detail with example.....

[Seb Rupik]

Hi there,

I wrote a blog post about implementing it:

https://configif.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/raspberry-pi-nat64dns64-router/

Obviously if you were using this in production the hardware which you use would be a little different, but the services involved and position in the network would remain the same.

cheers,

Seb.