Re: [Arianne-general] ICS & co

[<dra...@ya...>]

Yes, ip6 will support IP4 but IP4 wont support IP6 (and machines on it
and only it)!

I think ICS (Windows 9x ICS, I dont know about NT/XP's) works only as a
gateway. NAT is also dependant on the NAT software understanding the
communication system of the program, to be able to correctly substitute
the external address when it accidently says the internal address. Or
something like that. (From reading the WinGate manual).

So it in fact wouldnt work for Arianne. Oh, there are ways around it I
imagine, assigning a range of ports on your firewall to connect to a
range on an internal machine, but again, an external machine attempting
to connect (not receive from) a machine behind the ICS/NAT/firewall
would need to really connect to the firewall and port range, knowing it
would be forwarded. Which it wouldnt know. Unless it was told by the
machien its trying to connect to. Which isnt really supporting ICS.

I think. I am making this up mostly as I go along. I've not spent as
much time working with networking as other aspects.

Wizard

 --- "Keith C." <cas...@ya...> wrote: 
> 
>      Well, technically if you support ipv6 the system will support
> ipv4 by default.  It will just
> fill zeros into those open address slots.  Doesn't ICS work nearly
> identically to NAT?  If so,
> then it shouldn't require anything special on the part of Arianne. 
> It would all be handled by the
> firewall/router/whatever that controls the packets on your
> connection.
> 
> dkc
> 


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