[190722] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Deployment for Mobile Subscribers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tore Anderson)
Fri Jul 22 16:37:00 2016
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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 22:36:54 +0200
From: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
To: Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>
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* Baldur Norddahl
> Den 22. jul. 2016 20.25 skrev "Ca By" <cb.list6@gmail.com>:
>
> > Phones, as in 3gpp? If so, each phone alway gets a /64, there is
> > no choice.
> >
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6459
>
> Here the cell companies are marketing their 4G LTE as an alternative
> to DSL, Coax and fiber for internet access in your home with a 4G
> wifi router. If they can not do prefix delegation it is no
> alternative!
Actually, that /64 prefix is delegated, after a fashion. RFC 7278.
That said, according to RFC 6459 section 5.3, full DHCPv6-PD support
was specified in 3GPP Rel-10. Not sure if there are production
deployments of that yet though, and if not how far off they are. But at
least it looks like it's coming.
Tore
