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Legacy support on IPv6-only infra

Jan 17, 2017Glenn Rivkees
Legacy support on IPv6-only infra
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This post details the technical implementation of supporting IPv4 external requests on an IPv6-only data center infrastructure. It describes modifications to Layer 4 (L4LB/shiv) and Layer 7 (L7LB/proxygen) load balancers, including the use of IPv4 link-local addresses as BGP next-hops for IPv6-only servers, tunneling IPv4 traffic inside IPv6 using a custom kernel module for decapsulation, and the use of gnlpy to configure IPVS forwarding. It also explains how Direct Server Return (DSR) is maintained for IPv4 responses.

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