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Re: Verizon IPv6 LTE


From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:14:49 +0200 (CEST)

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


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