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= shimlib =

== Availability and IPv6 support ==

|| '''Name''' || '''IPv6 support''' || '''Supported operating systems''' ||
|| [[http://geminis.myip.org/sources/shimlib.c|shimlib]] || included || Linux only ||
|| [[http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/6to4/noipv4.html|shimlib]] || included || BSD only ||

== Description ==

IPv4-less Internet client setup (Bump in the API- BAI)
Allows execution of IPv4 applications on IPv6 only boxes


== Comments ==

Linux Usage e.g.:
LD_PRELOAD=./shimlib.so wget --proxy=off www.ipv6.bieringer.de ;
Note: currently only working with glibc-2.2

Most of the case also need NAT-PT.

== Usage information ==

== Categories ==

CategoryApps, CategoryAppstransition

== Source of information ==
[[http://www.daemonnews.org|Daemonnews]]