Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-mobile-device-profile-17.txt - DHCP-PD

[jouni korhonen <[e-mail]>]

I still fail to see how EIT setting relates to IPv6 as a requirement.  It
is a normal procedure when the UE wants to connect (during the initial
attach) to another APN than the default one.

- Jouni

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Ross Chandler <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> On 18 Feb 2015, at 16:47, jouni korhonen <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:57 AM, Alexandru Petrescu <
> [e-mail]> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Le 18/02/2015 12:13, Kossut Tomasz - Hurt a écrit :
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Inline comments:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thank you for the report. It is good to see how good consideration
>>> is given to IPv6, and the two separated paths IPv4/IPv6.
>>>
>>> It is encouraging to see numerous smartphone manufacturers having
>>> embraced the CLAT technology.
>>>
>>> (tk) - this is not only CLAT, (CLAT is in generic Android thanks to
>>> Lorenzo, Cameron, Dan & others) each vendor has its own
>>> customization based on MCCMNC/region to control "features" per
>>> operator. In our case we have :  dedicated clatd.conf (not generic
>>> one), IPv6 tethering(DHCPv6, RA, Relay IPv6 DNS)
>>>
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>> It's good to see these mentioned.
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>> For tethering - is the network offering DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation
>> service?  Or is the device performing '64share' RFC7278?
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>> There are some advantages on doing the former rather than the latter.
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>>  EIT bit =1,
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>> What is the EIT bit?
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> My wild guess is that it is the ESM information transfer flag bit in the ESM
> information transfer flag information element. If it is, it does not really
> have anything to do with IPv6 IMHO.
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> - Jouni
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> As far as I can tell from a previous answer on v6ops by Orange PL the EIT
> bit (think it is ESM info transfer flag IE) has an effect when the HSS has
> a default APN different from the one requested by the UE.  Without the EIT
> bit set the network doesn’t let the UE requested APN override the default
> from the HSS, so two PDN connections are set up, one with IPv4 (assuming
> the default is an IPv4 only APN) and the other IPv6 (assuming that was
> requested by the UE).  So strictly speaking it does look independent of IP
> version but it is being noticed as operators introduce IPv6.
>
> Ross
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