Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6

[A.L.M.Buxey () lboro ac uk]

Hi,
> I've done fairly extensive testing, and IPv6 support, while pretty solid on the carrier side, is still iffy on WiFi. 
> Both iOS and Android have various reliability problems with IPv6 and WiFi, mostly related to acquiring a DNS address 
> or maintaining a connection while roaming. Combine that with less-than-fully-baked IPv6 on some enterprise WiFi 
> platforms, and it's easy to see that deploying WiFi IPv6 today is at least a challenge, and definitely a risk. 
>
> Android, for example, doesn't yet support DHCPv6 on WiFi (it's not needed on the carrier side, which does DNS 
> intercept), and intermittently looses its unicast address on some hardware devices (notably tablets, in my 
> experience). Even when android gets DHCPv6, or these hardware problems get solved, there will be several years of 
> legacy devices in the field to contend with.  

we had problems with IPv4 in the early days - people still adopted it. without adoption, the bugs/issues with clients 
dont
get addressed. 

alan