SL8500 - IPv6 Support For SL8500 Libraries

Asset ID:	1-72-2245692.1
Update Date:	2018-05-17
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Solution 2245692.1 : SL8500 - IPv6 Support For SL8500 Libraries

Applies to:

Sun StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

No IPV6 support, now customer is asking if there are any plans to provide the NAT64 solution/support.

Changes

Customer is looking on a workaround using NAT64?

NAT64 is an IPv6 transition mechanism that facilitates communication between IPv6 and IPv4 hosts by using a form of network address translation (NAT). The NAT64 gateway is a translator between IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, for which function it needs at least one IPv4 address and an IPv6 network segment comprising a 32-bit address space.

An IPv6 client embeds the IPv4 address it wishes to communicate with using the host part of the IPv6 network segment, resulting in an IPv4-embedded IPv6 addresses (hence the 32-bit address space in the IPv6 network segment), and sends packets to the resulting address. The NAT64 gateway creates a mapping between the IPv6 and the IPv4 addresses, which may be manually configured or determined automatically.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT64

Cause

IPv6 was removed from SL8500 firmware (FRS 7.xx)

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Solution

Several years ago Oracle successfully demonstrated NAT64 using a Tayga solution. It is a publicly-available solution.
Downloads and documentation are available at http://www.litech.org/tayga/

The solution was demonstrated in our development lab, but not tested as an Oracle product. There are other solutions available that implement NAT64.

The customer would need to review the options and choose what solution would be best in their environment.

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