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8 ServerIron ADX NAT64 Configuration Guide
53-1002444-02
Stateful NAT64 overview
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DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL
The DNS64 server provides the IPv6 client with a synthesized IPv6 address which enables the IPv6
client to reach the IPv4 resource. The synthesized IPv6 address consists of the 96-bit NAT64 IPv6
prefix concatenated to the IPv4 destination address of the IPv4 resource and represents that IPv4
resource to the IPv6 network.
The ServerIron ADX is configured as a stateful NAT64 gateway. The NAT64 gateway strips the IPv6
prefix from the synthesized destination address and forwards the packet to the resource using an
IPv4 address selected from its IPv4 NAT address pool as the source address. Because the state is
maintained, packets returned from the IPv4-only resource to the IPv6-only client are able to use the
same session to perform the required reverse translation.
Two key components must be configured on the NAT64 gateway in order to allow communication
between IPv6 clients and IPv4 resources: a NAT64 IPv6 prefix and an IPv4 NAT address pool.
NAT64 IPv6 prefix: The DNS64 server concatenates the NAT64 IPv6 prefix to the IPv4 source
address to create the synthesized IPv6 destination address which represents the IPv4
resource to the IPv6 network.
IPv4 NAT address pool: The NAT64 gateway selects an IPv4 address from the IPv4 NAT address
pool to use as the source address for packets it forwards to the IPv4 resource.
Operation of stateful NAT64
The following steps describe the operation of stateful NAT64 translation for the environment shown
in Figure 1.
1. The IPv6 client sends a query to the DNS64 server for the address of the resource
“www.brocadetest.com”.
2. As shown in Figure 2, the DNS64 server responds to the client’s query with a synthesized IPv6
address (2001:db8:80::100.1.1.1) that represents the IPv4 resource to the IPv6 network.
Notice that this synthesized IPv6 address is composed of a user-configured 96-bit IPv6 prefix
(2001:db8:80::) and the IP address of the IPv4-only server (100.1.1.1).
FIGURE 2 IPv6 client to DNS64 server communication
3. The IPv6 client sends a packet with the source address of the IPv6 client (2001:db8:ccc::1) to
the synthesized IPv6 destination address (2001:db8:80::100.1.1.1) that was obtained from
the DNS64 server.
4. The NAT64 gateway strips away the NAT64 IPv6 prefix from the synthesized IPv6 destination
address that was sent from the IPv6-only client and sets the remaining IPv4 address
(100.1.1.1) as the new destination address.
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