| Exam 300-101 | Question id=443 | Infrastructure Services |
What is a function of NPTv6?
| A. |
It interferes with encryption of the full IP payload. | |
| B. |
It maintains a per-node state. | |
| C. |
It is checksum-neutral. | |
| D. |
It rewrites transport layer headers. |
RFC 6296 describes a stateless Ipv6-to-Ipv6 Network Prefix Translation (NPTv6) function, designed to provide address independence to the edge network. It is transport-agnostic with respect to transports that do not checksum the IP header, such as SCTP, and to transports that use the TCP/UDP/DCCP (Datagram Congestion Control Protocol) pseudo-header and checksum NPTv6 provides a simple and compelling solution to meet the address-independence requirement in IPv6. The address-independence benefit stems directly from the translation function of the network prefix translator. To avoid as many of the issues associated with NAPT44 as possible, NPTv6 is defined to include a twoway, checksum-neutral, algorithmic translation function, and nothing else.