[140001] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New IPv6 survey released on labs.ripe.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Day)
Wed Apr 27 12:57:08 2011
From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimUciQ6kJnXSWsyv41KAaVNnKtF0g@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:56:57 -0500
To: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 27, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
>=20
> Can we get mobile devices added to this? Mobile consumes a large =
amount of
> address space and is especially well suited for ipv6-only operations.
>=20
> Unfortunately, the results would be painfully narrow. Now that Nokia =
no
> longer supports ipv6, there is no going forward ipv6 support on any =
mobile
> device (htc did something special for thunderbolt, it's not an android =
3g
> feature )
>=20
> It's a very sad state of affairs.
For testing purposes, we try to keep a few phones on each major carrier, =
and I was actually surprised at how many of our randomly purchased =
phones did support IPv6.
T-Mobile: Nokia N900 works great thanks to you(admittedly a dead-end =
from Nokia, but it works with the same level of shell script and kernel =
hacking that all N900 users expect)
AT&T: iPhone 4 (works on wifi, but not over 3G. Can't even be disabled =
if you don't want v6)
Verizon: HTC Thunderbolt (works out of the box)
No IPv6 on Sprint, US Cellular or Metro PCS though. They don't have =
anything that supports IPv6 as far as I can tell.
For me as a consumer, I actually had no idea that the Thunderbolt or =
iPhone were even using IPv6, it's totally automatic and seamless. But I =
am surprised at how few phones/tablets have any IPv6 support at all, =
with how late in the game this is.
-- Kevin
