RFC 6535
Dual-Stack Hosts Using "Bump-in-the-Host" (BIH), February 2012
- File formats:
- Status:
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Obsoletes:
- RFC 2767, RFC 3338
- Authors:
- B. Huang
H. Deng
T. Savolainen - Stream:
- IETF
- Source:
- behave (tsv)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6535
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Abstract
Bump-in-the-Host (BIH) is a host-based IPv4 to IPv6 protocol translation mechanism that allows a class of IPv4-only applications that work through NATs to communicate with IPv6-only peers. The host on which applications are running may be connected to IPv6-only or dual-stack access networks. BIH hides IPv6 and makes the IPv4-only applications think they are talking with IPv4 peers by local synthesis of IPv4 addresses. This document obsoletes RFC 2767 and RFC 3338. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.