Re: [v6ops] Apple and IPv6, a few clarifications - 64share

Ross Chandler <ross@eircom.net> Mon, 22 June 2015 12:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Apple and IPv6, a few clarifications - 64share
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> On 22 Jun 2015, at 13:16, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:
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> On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
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>> It is better to tell the operator to provide a /63 to smartphones (not a /64), with DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation.  That will fix it.
> 
> DHCPv6-PD exists in recent 3GPP documents, but vendor implementation of this is not wide-spread. We do *not* want to gate IPv6 rollout in mobile networks on this functionality. Yes, we want it, but we can’t wait for it.

Agreed. Also L2 bridging and 64share can be used to simultaneously provide IPv6 over WiFi, Bluetooth, and wired Ethernet.

Ross