[190097] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Link-local v6 and mobile phones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Wed Jun 15 13:35:03 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 19:34:58 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Willy MANGA <mangawilly@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <57617ABF.3070208@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, Willy MANGA wrote:
> Hello,
>
> a little question :)
>
> For mobile operators using v6 on their networks, how do you manage
> link-local communication between mobile phones ?
>
> While I understand it's layer 2 related, am i able for example to make
> ping sweep and be able to communicate directly with other phone (customer) ?
No. Your phone has a tunnel to a node in the mobile network and that's the
only one you can send packets to. It's a GTP tunnel, but it's very similar
to GRE or IPIP or whatever.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
