[Xorp-users] IPv4-to-IPv6 Multicast Translation

[Archimedes S. Gaviola]

Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> Archimedes S. Gaviola wrote:
>> Hi! I need to know if XORP project have some roadmap for unicast and 
>> multicast transition mechanisms since it fairly supports both IPv4 
>> and IPv6 for all the routing protocols implemented? Co-existence 
>> between the legacy IPv4 and the new IPv6 protocol is nowadays the 
>> trend to deploy the new Internet. Is it possible if we can add a 
>> feature on XORP wherein it can translate IPv4 multicast to IPv6 
>> multicast just like one of the link here 
>> http://forskningsnett.uninett.no/testnett/multicast/mcgw/?
>>   
>
> XORP is router control plane software. What you are describing is 
> something which requires cooperation from both the forwarding plane 
> and the control plane.
>
> As far as I am aware, there are no current plans to offer such 
> functionality. If anyone is willing to contribue this work then it 
> would be very welcome.
>
> A good starting point for this work would be to work on adding proxy 
> functionality to the existing xorp_mld and xorp_igmp processes.
>
> thanks
> BMS
>
Thanks Bruce for your reply! At least I know at the moment that this is 
not yet a planned functionality of XORP but this is really a 
nice-to-have feature as far as IPv6 transition is concerned.

Archimedes