[160794] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 support by wifi systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Livingood, Jason)
Wed Feb 13 11:34:07 2013
From: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>
To: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:33:48 +0000
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.02.1302112319180.346@brugal.local>
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Access point support from many vendors seems okay. But another vendor gap
on IPv6 is WiFi AAA, policy servers, and tunnel servers from vendors like
Ericsson and ALU. I hope to see richer IPv6 support for these aspects of
WiFi (helpful for those operating lots of outdoor WiFi systems for
example).=20
Jason
On 2/11/13 11:23 PM, "Brandon Ross" <bross@pobox.com> wrote:
>Like so many things IPv6, many of the wifi vendors seem to lack decent
>support for IPv6 clients. I'm not sure why I thought the situation was
>better than it seems to be, I guess I'm just an optimist.
>
>Anyway, what wifi vendors provide the best support for IPv6? I don't
>really care too much about management, but to deploy wifi in a service
>provider environment with IPv6, it would seem that you'd want at least:
>
>RA Guard
>DHCPv6 Shield (unless you just do SLAAC, I guess)
>IPv6 Source Address Guard
>
>Am I missing anything critical?
>
>--=20
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