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Stateless IP/ICMP Translation algorithm

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In computer networking, Stateless IP/ICMP Translation is a mechanism which translates IPv6 packets into IPv4 packets and vice-versa.

It was initially drafted in February of 2000 by E. Nordmark of Sun Microsystems and is described in RFC 2765 (Network Working Group at Internet Engineering Task Force).

Basically SIIT describes a method by which a router interprets an IPv4 header and creates a parallel IPv6 header with equivalent information and the inverse equivalent operation of converting an IPv4 header into an IPv6 header. The actual means of converting an IPv4 address to an IPv6 address or vice-versa may vary, and the means by which the routing occurs is described as unspecified in the RFC.


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