[146138] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 beta support for Android phones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Fri Nov 4 20:01:43 2011
In-Reply-To: <4EB47928.3030503@altadena.net>
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 17:00:10 -0700
To: Pete Carah <pete@altadena.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The cellular radios firmware doesn't support ipv6(on your iPhone)...
Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 4, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Pete Carah <pete@altadena.net> wrote:
> On 11/04/2011 06:04 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
>> FYI.
>>
>> T-Mobile USA now has opt-in beta support for an Android phone on IPv6,
>> more info here https://sites.google.com/site/tmoipv6/lg-mytouch
> Very good.
>>
>> As far as i know, this is the first Android phone that support IPv6 on
>> the GSM/UMTS mobile interface. Previous version of Android phones
>> supported IPv6 on WiFi and LTE.
> My iPhone (old 3G, 4.2.1) supports v6 on wifi (I can see it at the other
> end of connections; the
> UI status page refuses to admit to ipv6 though.) It appears to use only
> eui64 addresses and not
> privacy ones (this from perusing web and mail logs at the server end).
>
> I don't know about any other medium since as far as I can see, AT&T's
> network doesn't (yet)
> support v6 on umts or gsm/edge :-(
>
> -- Pete
>
>
>
