RFC 7596
Lightweight 4over6: An Extension to the Dual-Stack Lite Architecture, July 2015
- File formats:
- Status:
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Authors:
- Y. Cui
Q. Sun
M. Boucadair
T. Tsou
Y. Lee
I. Farrer - Stream:
- IETF
- Source:
- softwire (int)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7596
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Abstract
Dual-Stack Lite (DS-Lite) (RFC 6333) describes an architecture for transporting IPv4 packets over an IPv6 network. This document specifies an extension to DS-Lite called "Lightweight 4over6", which moves the Network Address and Port Translation (NAPT) function from the centralized DS-Lite tunnel concentrator to the tunnel client located in the Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). This removes the requirement for a Carrier Grade NAT function in the tunnel concentrator and reduces the amount of centralized state that must be held to a per-subscriber level. In order to delegate the NAPT function and make IPv4 address sharing possible, port-restricted IPv4 addresses are allocated to the CPEs.
For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.