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		Dylan16807 on Oct 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses So I'm not saying it's backwards compatible, exactly, but what would you call 64:ff9b::?

mulmen on Oct 22, 2020 [–]

A reserved gateway address space?

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

Dylan16807 on Oct 23, 2020 | [–]

By embedding the IPv4 address space inside the IPv6 address space.

They are different protocols but they are not disjoint address spaces.

You add 96 bits to the address and boom it's converted.

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