Bug#1041858: ITP: tundra-nat64 -- A minimal, user-space, stateless NAT64, CLAT and SIIT implementation for Linux

[Daniel Gröber <dxld@darkboxed.org>]

Hi Paul,

good to know there's other people in Debian that care about IPv6 :)

On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 10:26:03AM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> As a current jool user, I'm very interested in this project. I'll have
> to try this out.

I haven't actually tried it yet myself, I tend to package first -- test and
use later :D

So let me know if you do would love to hear a report.

> > Hence we need more alternatives for these services in Debian.
> > 
> > tundra-nat64 is a new userspace implementation of SIIT, NAT64 and
> > [CLAT]. It's multithreaded as opposed to tayga so my hope is the
> > performance will be much better.
> > 
> > I plan on maintaining tuntra-nat64 myself but I do need a sponsor :)
> 
> Why the heck not, I'm happy to review and sponsor; IPv6 adoption is
> critical, and giving a hand to someone working to maintain current
> tooling to help with the adoption is doing good work. Hit me up off-list
> and we'll work out a workflow and all that.

Excellent. I'll hit you up with a (gbp) package as soon as I get around to
it. Doesn't look very involved at first glance.

FYI: I have another ITP pending for VPP (fdio-vpp) -- a very, very, very
fast userspace packet processor (DPDK based) which also has SIIT/NAT64
support, but not fully featured last I checked.

Might be interesting to you too. I just never got around to actually
deploying VPP in my test network since my use-case for 10/40G routing/NAT64
dissapated so I never finsihed the package. It's about to come back though
so stay tuned :)

Thanks,
--Daniel