[156640] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon IPv6 LTE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Fri Sep 21 00:15:37 2012
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:14:49 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net>
In-Reply-To: <2138595174.221799.1348196437402.JavaMail.root@network1.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Randy Carpenter wrote:
> In a happier note, if you tether a device via hotspot on an IOS6 iPad,
> the clients get native IPv6. Strangely, they get addresses out of the
> same /64 as the iPad's LTE interface. Anyone know how that is working? I
> would have thought they would use prefix-delegation, and there would be
> a separate routed /64.
Prefix delegation isn't generally available in mobile networks yet,
that'll come in the next few years. It's probably using ND proxy or
similar technique.
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6459> is a good starting point for further
study, more specifically <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6459#section-5.3>
to answer your above question.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
