Subject: (IPng 7156) Release announcement of the SOCKS-based IPv6/IPv4 Translator

From: Hiroshi KITAMURA <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 14:35:34 +0900

Dear All:

This is release announcement of the SOCKS-based IPv6/IPv4 Translator that was
explained at Orlando meeting.

This package provides heterogeneous connections between IPv4 and IPv6
nodes.

If you would like to communicate from your IPv4 node to IPv6 node
                              or from your IPv6 node to IPv4 node, 
please download this package and evaluate it.

What you have to do are:
	1. download packages
	2. compile them on IPv4/IPv6 dual stack node.
	3. install enhanced socks5 sever to dual stack node.
	4. install enhanced socks5 library to IPv4 or IPv6 node.
	5. setup configuration files.
	6. socksify applications when you execute them.

That's all
You don't have to modify the DNS system at all.
You don't have to prepare address mapping servers. etc.

Now, the source code of this package is available from following URL:

	http://www.socks.nec.com/

Please visit this site.
	Click "Translator" button to see brief explanation.

Download Instruction:
	Click "Download socks5" button at http://www.socks.nec.com/
	Go down to the bottom of the download page.
	Select "socks5 v1.0 release 8 - translator patch 1.1" package
		at pull down form.
	Click "Download" button.

	If you don't have "socks5 v1.0 release 8 - UNIX Source" package,
		do the same procedure to download it.

Details of the SOCKS-based IPv6/IPv4 Translator is explained by
following Internet-Draft.

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-kitamura-socks-ipv6-trans-arch-00.txt

Regards,
Hiroshi
         /   /          /       /      Hiroshi KITAMURA
    __  /   __/    __  __/ __  __/    C&C Media Research Laboratories
       /   /       _  _ /__/  /      NEC Corporation
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