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Dormelchen_2406
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Feb 06, 2011

Question about IPv6 - BIGIP

we have an BIG IP LTM 6400 and we want to user IPv6 adresses for virtual servers.     Is this possible ?     BIG-IP 9.4.5 build 1086.1 Hotfix HF2       thanks  
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Qin_Jian
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Aug 21, 2012
I am also interested in the IPv6 configuration. We are about to introduce IPv6, so that both IPv4 and IPv6 will co-exist. The thing is our application will need to learn the source IP addresses from the field, and sometimes connect to the client in the field using its WAN IP address. The application will still need to support IPv4.

 

 

Could you please share some information how the IPv6 gateway work? Also which approach would you recommend for the configuration: using the IPv6 gateway to translate the IPv6 to IPv4? in that case, since IPv6 has more address space, is it possible to miss some IPv6 after the translation? Also, if we take the approach of creating a tunnel, is there any version limitation?

 

 

One last but not the least question, do we need the GTM and LTM for that?

 

 

Thanks,

 

Qin