[128333] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: T-Mobile IPv6 Beta
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joshua William Klubi)
Sun Aug 1 01:31:26 2010
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1008010712080.24755@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 05:31:17 +0000
From: Joshua William Klubi <joshua.klubi@gmail.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Have you considered updating the Nokia n900 to the latest version of OS ie
PR2 they fixed ipv6 stack
Sent from My Google Nexus 1
> On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Stefan wrote:
>
>> Nokia N900: http://n900-ipv6.garage.maemo.org/ - worth giving it a shot
...
>
> Just as an FYI, the N900 Connection Manager (just like the Ubuntu Linux
> equivalent) doesn't consider getting an IPv6 address+DNS only (no IPv4) as
> being "connected", and considers the connection to be down and spews a
> failure message. The scripts linked above requires dual PDP contexts (one
> for v4 and one for v6) and this usually requires additional license ($$$)
> for SGSN and other parts of the mobile network.
>
> Some other Nokia phones actually support single IPv6 PDP context and thus
> work with NAT64 for instance.
>
> Ubuntu has no IPv6 focus at all as far as I can discern from reading
> tickets regarding IPv6, they seem content with what they get for "free"
> from the kernel and some 3rd party programs one has to install oneself.
> A lot of people in the support world (irc+forums etc) actively suggests
> disabling IPv6 for a lot of "slowness problems".
>
> We have a long road ahead of us...
>
> --
> Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
>
