Re: Link-local v6 and mobile phones

[Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>]

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