Need NAT64 on FreeBSD

Mark Martinec Mark.Martinec+freebsd at ijs.si
Wed Mar 20 02:35:01 UTC 2013


On Wednesday March 20 2013 01:54:03 Vladislav Prodan wrote:
> Prompt please what or how to implement NAT64 on Freebsd?

It is very unfortunate that the PF firewall on FreeBSD
is stuck at an old version and doesn't support NAT64,
nor does the IPFW support it AFICT.

The quickest options that I see is to fire up a VirtualBox
under FreeBSD and install a guest OS there that can do the job,
like OpenBSD 5.2, or perhaps using an older live-CD
by Ecdysis ( http://ecdysis.viagenie.ca/ ), which provides
two choices: Linux with Netfilter, or an old OpenBSD
with a patched PF.

Btw, the DNS64 is not a problem, just use a recent Bind from
ports. Similarly the DHCPv6 is not a problem either thanks
to ISC dhcp42 from ports.

I feel the lack of NAT64 support under FreeBSD a large
hurdle against deploying IPv6-only internal networks.

  Mark


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