Development of IPv6/IPv4 Translator Using High Performance Packet Processing Engine

Abstract

Recently, Internet use has increased rapidly especially in Asia, and the stock of IPv4 address has been exhausted. Fundamental solution for IPv4 address depletion is to migrate IPv6. However, since IPv6 is not compatible with IPv4 (such as address length, header structure), they can't communicate with each other directly. High Performance Packet Processing Engine (HPPPE) is a network processing software running on Linux developed by FUJITSU. In this research, we developed IPv6/IPv4 Translator using HPPPE. IPv6/IPv4 Translator enables IPv6 host to communicate with IPv4 host.