RFC 7596: Lightweight 4over6: An Extension to the Dual-Stack Lite Architecture

Dual-Stack Lite (DS-Lite) (RFC 6333) describes an architecture for transporting IPv4 packets over an IPv6 network. This document specifies an extension to…

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Outgoing relationships (20 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private Internets
Normative reference — RFC 4787: Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP
Normative reference — RFC 2473: Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification
Normative reference — RFC 6333: Dual-Stack Lite Broadband Deployments Following IPv4 Exhaustion
Normative reference — RFC 5382: NAT Behavioral Requirements for TCP
Normative reference — RFC 5508: NAT Behavioral Requirements for ICMP
Normative reference — RFC 5597: Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral Requirements for the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 7598: DHCPv6 Options for Configuration of Softwire Address and Port-Mapped Clients
Informative reference — RFC 2827: Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing
Informative reference — RFC 3022: Traditional IP Network Address Translator (Traditional NAT)
Informative reference — RFC 2983: Differentiated Services and Tunnels
Informative reference — RFC 6887: Port Control Protocol (PCP)
Informative reference — RFC 6269: Issues with IP Address Sharing
Informative reference — RFC 6346: The Address plus Port (A+P) Approach to the IPv4 Address Shortage
Informative reference — RFC 7597: Mapping of Address and Port with Encapsulation (MAP-E)
Informative reference — RFC 6864: Updated Specification of the IPv4 ID Field
Informative reference — RFC 7341: DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6 (DHCP 4o6) Transport
Informative reference — RFC 6431: Huawei Port Range Configuration Options for PPP IP Control Protocol (IPCP)
Informative reference — RFC 7040: Public IPv4-over-IPv6 Access Network

Incoming relationships (8 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9313: Pros and Cons of IPv6 Transition Technologies for IPv4-as-a-Service (IPv4aaS)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7618: Dynamic Allocation of Shared IPv4 Addresses
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9386: IPv6 Deployment Status
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7678: Attribute-Value Pairs for Provisioning Customer Equipment Supporting IPv4-Over-IPv6 Transitional Solutions
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7598: DHCPv6 Options for Configuration of Softwire Address and Port-Mapped Clients
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7787: Distributed Node Consensus Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7620: Scenarios with Host Identification Complications
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8114: Delivery of IPv4 Multicast Services to IPv4 Clients over an IPv6 Multicast Network